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.[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 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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