Academic article

• Alexandra Pearson; Sarah Jacoba Deborah Wurz; Karen Loise van Niekerk et al. (2026). Changing subsistence strategies during the MSA I and MSA II: a zooarchaeological analysis of the vertebrate fauna from the Witness Baulk at Klasies River Main Site: South Africa. (external link)
• Matthew V. Caruana; Matt G. Lotter; Sarah Jacoba Deborah Wurz et al. (2025). A Middle Stone Age Lithic Assemblage from Wonderboom, Gauteng, South Africa. (external link)
• Emma Cleminson; Justin Bradfield; Sarah Jacoba Deborah Wurz et al. (2025). Unprepared for work: Preliminary analyses of ad hoc bone tools from the Howiesons Poort layers at Klasies River main site, South Africa. (external link)
• Rialivhuwa Ratshinanga; Sarah Jacoba Deborah Wurz; Shaw Badenhorst (2025). The Middle Stone age fauna from the DC member of Cave 1B at Klasies River main site, South Africa: Animal exploitation during the MSA II. (external link)
• Peter Morrissey; Sarah Jacoba Deborah Wurz; Bertrand Ligouis et al. (2025). Burning, Cleaning, Dumping, and Dissolution: Site Formation Processes and Stratigraphy of Pre-110,000-Year-Old MSA l Deposits in Cave 1, Klasies River Main Site, South Africa. (external link)
• Kokeli Peter Ryano; Karen Loise van Niekerk; Christopher Stuart Henshilwood et al. (2024). Shellfish gathering during MIS 5c-d at Klasies River main site and Blombos Cave, southern Cape, South Africa: An inter-assemblage comparison. (external link)
• Jerome P. Reynard; Alexandra Pearson; Pamela Akuku et al. (2024). Taphonomic and zooarchaeological analysis of fauna from the Howiesons Poort and post-Howiesons Poort at Klasies River main site: Examining links between the environment and subsistence behaviour in Marine Isotope Stages 4 and 3. (external link)
• Joel Ezeimo; Sarah Jacoba Deborah Wurz; Shaw Badenhorst (2024). The Faunal from the MSA l Layers in Cave 1B, Klasies River Main site, South Africa. (external link)
• Jasmin Culey; T. Hodgskiss; Sarah Jacoba Deborah Wurz et al. (2023). Ochre use at Olieboomspoort, South Africa: insights into specular hematite use and collection during the Middle Stone Age. (external link)
• Peter Morrissey; Susan M. Mentzer; Sarah Jacoba Deborah Wurz (2023). The stratigraphy and formation of Middle Stone Age deposits in Cave 1B, Klasies River Main site, South Africa, with implications for the context, age, and cultural association of the KRM 41815/SAM-AP 6222 human mandible. (external link)
• B. Zwane; M. Bamford; Wijk van Wijk et al. (2023). An analysis and environmental interpretations of wood charcoal from the Later Stone Age deposit at Klasies River cave 1, Tsitsikamma Coast. (external link)
• Diyendo Massilani; Mike W. Morley; Susan M. Mentzer et al. (2022). Microstratigraphic preservation of ancient faunal and hominin DNA in Pleistocene cave sediments. (external link)
• Sarah Jacoba Deborah Wurz; Robyn Pickering; Susan M Mentzer (2022). U-Th dating, taphonomy, and taxonomy of shell middens at Klasies River main site indicate stable and systematic coastal exploitation by MIS 5c-d. (external link)
• Marlize Lombard; Justin Bradfield; Matthew V. Caruana et al. (2022). THE SOUTHERN AFRICAN STONE AGE SEQUENCE UPDATED (II). (external link)
• Peter Morrissey; Susan M Mentzer; Sarah Jacoba Deborah Wurz (2022). A Critical Review of the Stratigraphic Context of the MSA I and II at Klasies River Main Site, South Africa. (external link)
• Renee Rust; Joshua Kumbani; Neil Rusch et al. (2022). FLUTE PLAYING IN THE ROCK ART OF THE KLEIN KAROO AND CEDERBERG, SOUTH AFRICA — A POTENTIAL LINK TO ANCIENT SOUND. (external link)
• Sarah Jacoba Deborah Wurz (2021). Technocomplexes and chronostratigraphy for mis 6-1 in Southern Africa. (external link)
• Justin Bradfield; Marlize Lombard; Jerome P. Reynard et al. (2020). Further evidence for bow hunting and its implications more than 60 000 years ago: Results of a use-trace analysis of the bone point from Klasies River Main site, South Africa. (external link)
• Neil Rusch; Sarah Jacoba Deborah Wurz (2020). The Doring River bullroarers rock painting: Continuities in sound and rainmaking. (external link)
• Justin Bradfield; Sarah Jacoba Deborah Wurz (2020). A FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT OF THE NOTCHED BONE ARTEFACTS FROM KLASIES RIVER MAIN SITE. (external link)
• Jerome Reynard; Sarah Jacoba Deborah Wurz (2020). The palaeoecology of Klasies River, South Africa: An analysis of the large mammal remains from the 1984-1995 excavations of Cave 1 and 1A. (external link)
• Mareike Brenner; Kokeli P. Ryano; Sarah Jacoba Deborah Wurz (2020). Coastal adaptation at Klasies River main site during MIS 5c-d (93,000–110,000 years ago) from a southern Cape perspective. (external link)
• Mareike J Brenner; Sarah Jacoba Deborah Wurz (2019). A high-resolution perspective on MIS 5c-d lithic assemblages from Klasies River main site Cave 1. (external link)
• Cynthia Larbey; Susan Mentzer; Bertrand Ligouis et al. (2019). Cooked starchy food in hearths ca. 120 kya and 65 kya (MIS 5e and MIS 4) from Klasies River Cave, South Africa. (external link)
• Kokeli Peter Ryano; Karen Loise Van Niekerk; Sarah Jacoba Deborah Wurz et al. (2019). Shellfish exploitation during the Oakhurst at Klipdrift Cave, southern Cape, South Africa. (external link)
• Yvette Van Wijk; Renee Rust; Eldrid M. Uithaler et al. (2019). Ethnobotanical research at klasies river linking past, present, and future. (external link)
• Silje Evjenth Bentsen; Sarah Jacoba Deborah Wurz (2019). Color Me Heated? A Comparison of Potential Methods to Quantify Color Change in Thermally-Altered Rocks. (external link)
• Liezl Van Pletzen-Vos; James Brink; Jerome P. Reynard et al. (2019). Revisiting Klasies river: A report on the large mammal remains from the deacon excavations of Klasies river main site, South Africa. (external link)
• Joshua Kumbani; Justin Bradfield; Neil Rusch et al. (2019). A functional investigation of southern Cape Later Stone Age artefacts resembling aerophones. (external link)
• Katja Douze; Anne Delagnes; Sarah Jacoba Deborah Wurz et al. (2018). The Howiesons Poort lithic sequence of Klipdrift Shelter, southern Cape, South Africa. (external link)
• Alice Novello; Marion K. Bamford; Yvette Van Wijk et al. (2018). Phytoliths in modern plants and soils from Klasies River, Cape Region (South Africa). (external link)
• Turid Hillestad Nel; Sarah Jacoba Deborah Wurz; Christopher Henshilwood (2018). Small mammals from Marine Isotope Stage 5 at Klasies River, South Africa - Reconstructing the local palaeoenvironment. (external link)
• Sarah Jacoba Deborah Wurz; Silje Evjenth Bentsen; Jerome Reynard et al. (2018). Connections, culture and environments around 100?000 years ago at Klasies River main site. (external link)
• Silje Evjenth Bentsen; Sarah Jacoba Deborah Wurz (2017). Towards a better understanding of cooking techniques in the African Middle Stone Age. (external link)
• Kokeli Peter Ryano; Sarah Jacoba Deborah Wurz; Karen Loise Van Niekerk et al. (2017). The Technology of the Early Oakhurst Lithic Techno-Complex from Klipdrift Cave, Southern Cape, South Africa. (external link)
• Anne Delagnes; Patrick Schmidt; Katja Douze et al. (2016). Early evidence for the extensive heat treatment of silcrete in the Howiesons Poort at Klipdrift Shelter (layer PBD, 65 ka), South Africa. (external link)
• Jerome Reynard; Emmanuel Discamps; Sarah Jacoba Deborah Wurz et al. (2016). Occupational intensity and environmental changes during the Howiesons Poort at Klipdrift Shelter, southern Cape, South Africa. (external link)
• Katja Douze; Sarah Jacoba Deborah Wurz; Christopher Henshilwood (2015). Techno-cultural characterization of the MIS 5 (c. 105 - 90 Ka) lithic industries at Blombos Cave, Southern Cape, South Africa. (external link)
• Christopher Henshilwood; Karen Loise Van Niekerk; Sarah Jacoba Deborah Wurz et al. (2014). Klipdrift Shelter, southern Cape, South Africa: preliminary report on the Howiesons Poort layers. (external link)
• Sarah Jacoba Deborah Wurz; C Perrault; P. J Brantingham, et al. (2013). Perreault, C. , Brantingham, P. J., Kuhn, S.L., Wurz, S. & Gao, X. Measuring the Complexity of Lithic Technology. (external link)
• Sarah Jacoba Deborah Wurz; Marlize Lombard; Gerrit L. Dusseldorp (2013). Pleistocene Homo and the updated Stone Age sequence of South Africa. (external link)
• Sarah Jacoba Deborah Wurz (2013). Technological trends in the Middle Stone Age of South Africa between MIS 7 and MIS 3. (external link)
• Sarah Jacoba Deborah Wurz; P Van Peer (2012). Out of Africa, the Nile Valley and the Northern Route. (external link)
• Sarah Jacoba Deborah Wurz (2012). The significance of MIS 5 shell midddens on the cape coast - a lithic perspective from Klasies River and Ysterfontein 1. (external link)

Academic book chapter

• Silje Evjenth Bentsen; Sarah Jacoba Deborah Wurz (2019). A Song of Space and Fire: Is There a Pyrotechnical Architecture of the African Middle Stone Age?. (external link)
• Sarah Jacoba Deborah Wurz (2014). Southern and East African Middle Stone Age: Geography and Culture. (external link)

Conference lecture

• Alexandra Pearson; Jerome P. Reynard; Karen Loise van Niekerk et al. (2025). HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT DYNAMICS DURING MIS 5 - Faunal Perspectives From The Southern Cape, South Africa. (external link)
• Inez Faul; Carin Andersson; Karen Loise van Niekerk et al. (2024). A palaeoenvironmental analysis of microfossils from MIS 5c-d in Cave 1, Klasies River main site, South Africa. (external link)
• Alexandra Pearson; Sarah Jacoba Deborah Wurz; Jerome P. Reynard et al. (2024). A comparative zooarchaeological perspective on MIS 5 coastal ecology at Klasies River Main site and Blombos Cave, South Africa. (external link)
• Antoine Muller; Simon James Armitage; francesco d'Errico et al. (2024). Many ways to get to the point: Experimental insights into the behavioural complexity involved in Middle Stone Age point-making. (external link)
• Kokeli Peter Ryano; Karen Loise van Niekerk; Sarah Jacoba Deborah Wurz et al. (2022). Shellfish remains as proxy for human behaviour and past environments during MSA II lower at Klasies River main site and Blombos Cave, southern Cape, South Africa. (external link)
• Silje Evjenth Bentsen; Sarah Jacoba Deborah Wurz (2018). Red alert? The colors of heat-affected quartzite from the Eastern Cape, South Africa. (external link)
• Kokeli Peter Ryano; Karen Loise Van Niekerk; Christopher Henshilwood et al. (2018). Shellfishing at Klipdrift Cave during the Oakhurst, ca. 12–10 ka, in the southern Cape coast, South Africa: human predation pressure, dietary and climatic implications. (external link)
• Kokeli Peter Ryano; Karen Loise Van Niekerk; Christopher Henshilwood et al. (2017). Shellfish and tortoise exploitation during the Oakhurst at Klipdrift Cave, southern Cape, South Africa: human predation pressure and climatic implications. (external link)
• Anne Delagnes; Katja Douze; Sarah Jacoba Deborah Wurz et al. (2016). The habitual heat treatment of silcrete by the Howiesons Poort groups from southern Africa. (external link)
• Anne Delagnes; Katja Douze; Sarah Jacoba Deborah Wurz et al. (2015). Heating silcrete: innovation, invention or simple opportunistic behavior for the MSA groups?. (external link)
• Anne Delagnes; Katja Douze; Sarah Jacoba Deborah Wurz et al. (2014). Patterns of changes over the Howiesons Poort sequence at Klipdrift Shelter (South Africa). (external link)
• P Schmidt; G Porraz; Anne Delagnes et al. (2014). Heat treatment of silcrete in the southern African MSA: the heating procedure and its implications for the chaine operatoire. (external link)

Conference poster

• Inez Faul; Carin Andersson; Karen Loise Van Niekerk et al. (2019). MIS 5c-d at Klasies River: An analysis of microfossils to infe paleoenvironmental conditions. (external link)

Editorial/Leader article

• Marlize Lombard; Lyn Wadley; Janette Deacon et al. (2012). SOUTH AFRICAN AND LESOTHO STONE AGE SEQUENCE UPDATED (I). (external link)

Encyclopedia

• Sarah Jacoba Deborah Wurz (2014). Southern and East African Middle Stone Age: Geography and Culture. . In: Smith C. (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology: SpringerReference (www.springerreference.com). Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2014. DOI: 10.1007/SpringerReference_403624 2014-02-28 14:41:28 UTC. (external link)

Encyclopedia entry

• Sarah Jacoba Deborah Wurz (2023). Southern African Middle Stone Age. (external link)
• Sarah Jacoba Deborah Wurz (2020). The Early Middle Stone Age in South Africa. (external link)

Journal review

• Sarah Jacoba Deborah Wurz (2024). Becoming human: Expert sequential and flexible thinking led to cumulative culture. Review of Enquist, M., Ghirlanda, S. & Lind, J. The Human Evolutionary Transition: From Animal Intelligence to Culture. Princeton University Press, Princeton, USA.. (external link)
• Sarah Jacoba Deborah Wurz (2014). Review of Barham, L. 2013. From Hand to Handle. The First Industrial Revolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press; Shea, J.J. 2013. Stone Tools in the Paleolithic and Neolithic Near East. A Guide. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Desrosiers, P.M. (Editor) 2012. The Emergence of Pressure Blade Making. From Origin to Modern Experimentation. New York: Springer. (external link)
• Sarah Jacoba Deborah Wurz (2012). Review of Henshilwood, C.S. & d’Errico, F. (editors). 2011. Homo symbolicus. The dawn of language, imagination and spirituality. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company. ISBN: 978-90-272-1189-7 (hardback). I-XI, 237pp. (external link)
• Sarah Jacoba Deborah Wurz (2011). The Cave of Hearths: Makapan Middle Pleistocene Research Project: Field research by Anthony Sinclair and Patrick Quinney, 1996-2001. (external link)

Media interview

• Marte Spangen; Silje Evjenth Bentsen; Sarah Jacoba Deborah Wurz (2018). Arkeologi på rappen 1-3: Silje Evjenth Bentsen og Sarah Wurz om matlaging for 120.000 år siden. (external link)

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