Biography:Zenobia Jacobs
Zenobia Jacobs | |
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| Born | South Africa |
| Nationality | South African-Australian |
| Alma mater | University of Stellenbosch Aberystwyth University, Wales |
| Occupation | 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. 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|date=March 2021} al 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 et al. (2020-10-30). "Denisovan DNA in Late Pleistocene sediments from Baishiya Karst Cave on the Tibetan Plateau" (in en). Science 370 (6516): 584–587. doi:10.1126/science.abb6320. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 33122381. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abb6320.
- Douka, Katerina; Slon, Viviane; Jacobs, Zenobia; Ramsey, Christopher Bronk; Shunkov, Michael V.; Derevianko, Anatoly P.; Mafessoni, Fabrizio; Kozlikin, Maxim B. et al. (2019). "Age estimates for hominin fossils and the onset of the Upper Palaeolithic at Denisova Cave" (in en). Nature 565 (7741): 640–644. doi:10.1038/s41586-018-0870-z. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 30700871. Bibcode: 2019Natur.565..640D. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0870-z.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Professor Zenobia Jacobs - Scholar Profile - University of Wollongong". https://scholars.uow.edu.au/display/zenobia_jacobs.
- ↑ "Awards - International Union for Quaternary Research" (in en). https://www.inqua.org/funding/awards.
- ↑ "Unlocking the history of human evolution, one grain of sand at a time" (in en). 2019-04-30. https://www.timeshighereducation.com/hub/university-wollongong/p/unlocking-history-human-evolution-one-grain-sand-time.
- ↑ Jacobs, Zenobia; Roberts, Richard G. (2007). "Advances in optically stimulated luminescence dating of individual grains of quartz from archeological deposits" (in en). Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews 16 (6): 210–223. doi:10.1002/evan.20150. ISSN 1520-6505. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/evan.20150.
- ↑ "New Studies Reveal Deep History of Denisovans and Neanderthals in Southern Siberia" (in en). https://www.shh.mpg.de/1192251/denisovan-neanderthal-douka.
- ↑ Gibbons, Ann (2020-10-29). "DNA tracks mysterious Denisovans to Chinese cave, just before modern humans arrived nearby" (in en). AAAS. https://www.science.org/content/article/dna-tracks-mysterious-denisovans-chinese-cave-just-modern-humans-arrived-nearby.
- ↑ Jacobs, Zenobia; Roberts, Richard G.; Galbraith, Rex F.; Deacon, Hilary J.; Grün, Rainer; Mackay, Alex; Mitchell, Peter; Vogelsang, Ralf et al. (2008-10-31). "Ages for the Middle Stone Age of Southern Africa: Implications for Human Behavior and Dispersal" (in en). Science 322 (5902): 733–735. doi:10.1126/science.1162219. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 18974351. Bibcode: 2008Sci...322..733J. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1162219.
- ↑ 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" (in en). Earth and Planetary Science Letters 357-358: 226–237. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2012.09.006. Bibcode: 2012E&PSL.357..226R. https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0012821X12005018.
- ↑ Clarkson, Chris; Jacobs, Zenobia; Marwick, Ben; Fullagar, Richard; Wallis, Lynley; Smith, Mike; Roberts, Richard G.; Hayes, Elspeth et al. (2017). "Human occupation of northern Australia by 65,000 years ago" (in en). Nature 547 (7663): 306–310. doi:10.1038/nature22968. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 28726833. Bibcode: 2017Natur.547..306C. https://www.nature.com/articles/nature22968.
- ↑ Dewar, Robert E.; Radimilahy, Chantal; Wright, Henry T.; Jacobs, Zenobia; Kelly, Gwendolyn O.; Berna, Francesco (2013-07-30). "Stone tools and foraging in northern Madagascar challenge Holocene extinction models" (in en). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110 (31): 12583–12588. doi:10.1073/pnas.1306100110. ISSN 0027-8424. PMID 23858456. Bibcode: 2013PNAS..11012583D.
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