South African archaeologist and earth scientist
Zenobia Jacobs is a South African-born archaeologist and earth scientist specialising in geochronology . She is a professor at the University of Wollongong , Australia.[ 1]
Education and career
Jacobs graduated from the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa, in 1998, studying archaeology and geography , and received her PhD from Aberystwyth University , Wales, in 2004.[citation needed ] She joined the University of Wollongong as a research fellow in 2006 and is currently a professor in the Centre for Archaeological Science and the School of Earth of Environmental Sciences.[ 1] She is also an Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow and chief investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage .[citation needed ] She was awarded the International Union for Quaternary Research 's Sir Nick Shackleton Medal in 2009.[ 2]
Jacobs' research traces the evolutionary history of humans using single-grain optically stimulated luminescence dating .[ 3] [ 4] Her work on the Denisovans and Neanderthals has helped establish a timeline of when the two groups of archaic humans were present in southern Siberia and the environmental conditions they faced before going extinct.[ 5] [ 6] She has also contributed to reconstructions of past environments in Africa,[ 7] using ancient high sea-levels as analogues for future trends,[ 8] [clarification needed ] and studies of the ecological footprint of the first humans to reach Australia[ 9] and Madagascar.[ 10]
Selected publications
Zhang, Dongju; Xia, Huan; Chen, Fahu; Li, Bo; Slon, Viviane; Cheng, Ting; Yang, Ruowei; Jacobs, Zenobia; Dai, Qingyan; Massilani, Diyendo; Shen, Xuke (30 October 2020). "Denisovan DNA in Late Pleistocene sediments from Baishiya Karst Cave on the Tibetan Plateau" . Science . 370 (6516): 584–587. doi :10.1126/science.abb6320 . ISSN 0036-8075 . PMID 33122381 . S2CID 225956074 .
Douka, Katerina; Slon, Viviane; Jacobs, Zenobia; Ramsey, Christopher Bronk; Shunkov, Michael V.; Derevianko, Anatoly P.; Mafessoni, Fabrizio; Kozlikin, Maxim B.; Li, Bo; Grün, Rainer; Comeskey, Daniel (2019). "Age estimates for hominin fossils and the onset of the Upper Palaeolithic at Denisova Cave" . Nature . 565 (7741): 640–644. Bibcode :2019Natur.565..640D . doi :10.1038/s41586-018-0870-z . ISSN 1476-4687 . PMID 30700871 . S2CID 59525455 .
References
^ a b "Professor Zenobia Jacobs - Scholar Profile - University of Wollongong" . scholars.uow.edu.au . Retrieved 13 March 2021 .
^ "Awards - International Union for Quaternary Research" . INQUA . Retrieved 12 March 2021 .
^ "Unlocking the history of human evolution, one grain of sand at a time" . Times Higher Education (THE) . 30 April 2019. Retrieved 12 March 2021 .
^ Jacobs, Zenobia; Roberts, Richard G. (2007). "Advances in optically stimulated luminescence dating of individual grains of quartz from archeological deposits" . Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews . 16 (6): 210–223. doi :10.1002/evan.20150 . ISSN 1520-6505 . S2CID 84231863 .
^ "New Studies Reveal Deep History of Denisovans and Neanderthals in Southern Siberia" . www.shh.mpg.de . Retrieved 12 March 2021 .
^ Gibbons, Ann (29 October 2020). "DNA tracks mysterious Denisovans to Chinese cave, just before modern humans arrived nearby" . Science . AAAS. Retrieved 12 March 2021 .
^ Jacobs, Zenobia; Roberts, Richard G.; Galbraith, Rex F.; Deacon, Hilary J.; Grün, Rainer; Mackay, Alex; Mitchell, Peter; Vogelsang, Ralf; Wadley, Lyn (31 October 2008). "Ages for the Middle Stone Age of Southern Africa: Implications for Human Behavior and Dispersal" . Science . 322 (5902): 733–735. Bibcode :2008Sci...322..733J . doi :10.1126/science.1162219 . hdl :1885/32902 . ISSN 0036-8075 . PMID 18974351 . S2CID 206514762 .
^ Roberts, David L.; Karkanas, Panagiotis; Jacobs, Zenobia; Marean, Curtis W.; Roberts, Richard G. (2012). "Melting ice sheets 400,000 yr ago raised sea level by 13m: Past analogue for future trends" . Earth and Planetary Science Letters . 357–358: 226–237. Bibcode :2012E&PSL.357..226R . doi :10.1016/j.epsl.2012.09.006 .
^ Clarkson, Chris; Jacobs, Zenobia; Marwick, Ben; Fullagar, Richard; Wallis, Lynley; Smith, Mike; Roberts, Richard G.; Hayes, Elspeth; Lowe, Kelsey; Carah, Xavier; Florin, S. Anna (2017). "Human occupation of northern Australia by 65,000 years ago" . Nature . 547 (7663): 306–310. Bibcode :2017Natur.547..306C . doi :10.1038/nature22968 . hdl :2440/107043 . ISSN 1476-4687 . PMID 28726833 . S2CID 205257212 .
^ Dewar, Robert E.; Radimilahy, Chantal; Wright, Henry T.; Jacobs, Zenobia; Kelly, Gwendolyn O.; Berna, Francesco (30 July 2013). "Stone tools and foraging in northern Madagascar challenge Holocene extinction models" . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . 110 (31): 12583–12588. Bibcode :2013PNAS..11012583D . doi :10.1073/pnas.1306100110 . ISSN 0027-8424 . PMC 3732966 . PMID 23858456 .
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