School of Social Science

Dr Benjamin Schoville

Honorary Senior Fellow
School of Social Science

Publications

Book Chapter (1)
Journal Articles (28)
Newspaper Article (1)

Book Chapter

Wilkins, Jayne and Schoville, Benjamin J. (2016). Edge damage on 500-thousand-year-old spear tips from Kathu Pan 1, South Africa: the combined effects of spear use and taphonomic processes. Multidisciplinary approaches to the study of Stone Age weaponry. (pp. 101-117) edited by Radu Iovita and Katsuhiro Sano. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-94-017-7602-8_7

Journal Articles

Wessels, Stephen, Maape, Sechaba, Schoville, Benjamin J. and Wilkins, Jayne (2022). The drone, the snake, and the crystal: Manifesting potency in 3D digital replicas of living heritage and archaeological places. Archaeologies. doi: 10.1007/s11759-022-09460-3
Neill, Liam, Clarkson, Chris and Schoville, Benjamin (2022). Holding your shape: controlled tip fracture experiments on cast porcelain points. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 44 103505, 103505. doi: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2022.103505
von der Meden, Jessica, Pickering, Robyn, Schoville, Benjamin J., Green, Helen, Weij, Rieneke, Hellstrom, John, Greig, Alan, Woodhead, Jon, Khumalo, Wendy and Wilkins, Jayne (2022). Tufas indicate prolonged periods of water availability linked to human occupation in the southern Kalahari. PloS One, 17 (7) e0270104, 1-21. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0270104
Hatton, Amy, Collins, Benjamin, Schoville, Benjamin J. and Wilkins, Jayne (2022). Ostrich eggshell beads from Ga-Mohana Hill North Rockshelter, southern Kalahari, and the implications for understanding social networks during Marine Isotope Stage 2. PLoS One, 17 (6) e0268943, e0268943. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0268943
Pickering, Robyn, Herries, Andy I. R., Woodhead, Jon D., Hellstrom, John C., Green, Helen E., Paul, Bence, Ritzman, Terrence, Strait, David S., Schoville, Benjamin J. and Hancox, John (2021). Reply to: clusters of flowstone ages are not supported by statistical evidence. Nature, 594 (7863), E11-E11. doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03587-z
Gravel-Miguel, Claudine, Murray, John K., Schoville, Benjamin J., Wren, Colin D. and Marean, Curtis W. (2021). Exploring variability in lithic armature discard in the archaeological record. Journal of Human Evolution, 155 102981, 1-13. doi: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2021.102981
Wilkins, Jayne, Schoville, Benjamin J., Pickering, Robyn, Gliganic, Luke, Collins, Benjamin, Brown, Kyle S., von der Meden, Jessica, Khumalo, Wendy, Meyer, Michael C., Maape, Sechaba, Blackwood, Alexander F. and Hatton, Amy (2021). Innovative Homo sapiens behaviours 105,000 years ago in a wetter Kalahari. Nature, 592 (7853), 248-252. doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03419-0
Schoville, Benjamin J., Brown, Kyle S. and Wilkins, Jayne (2021). A lithic provisioning model as a proxy for landscape mobility in the Southern and Middle Kalahari. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 29 (1), 162-187. doi: 10.1007/s10816-021-09507-9
Neill, Liam, Clarkson, Chris and Schoville, Benjamin (2021). Holding your shape: controlled tip fracture experiments on cast porcelain points. SSRN Electronic Journal. doi: 10.2139/ssrn.3985342
Wilkins, Jayne, Schoville, Benjamin J., Brown, Kyle S., Gliganic, Luke, Meyer, Michael C., Loftus, Emma, Pickering, Robyn, Collins, Benjamin, Blackwood, Alexander F., Makalima, Simangaliso, Hatton, Amy and Maape, Sechaba (2020). Fabric analysis and chronology at Ga-Mohana Hill North Rockshelter, Southern Kalahari Basin: evidence for in situ, stratified Middle and Later Stone Age deposits. Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology, 3 (3), 336-361. doi: 10.1007/s41982-020-00050-9
Hatton, Amy, Schoville, Benjamin J. and Wilkins, Jayne (2020). A quantitative analysis of wear distributions on Middle Stone Age marine shell beads from Blombos Cave, South Africa. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 29 102137, 102137. doi: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.102137
Pickering, Robyn, Herries, Andy I. R., Woodhead, Jon D., Hellstrom, John C., Green, Helen E., Paul, Bence, Ritzman, Terrence, Strait, David S, Schoville, Benjamin J. and Hancox, Phillip J. (2019). U-Pb-dated flowstones restrict South African early hominin record to dry climate phases. Nature, 565 (7738), 226-229. doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0711-0
Singels, Elzanne and Schoville, Benjamin J. (2018). A stab in the dark: testing the efficacy of watsonia exudate as glue for stone tool hafting. South African Archaeological Bulletin, 73 (208), 147-153.
Schoville, Benjamin J. (2018). Experimental lithic tool displacement due to long-term animal disturbance. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 11 (11), 1-13. doi: 10.1007/s12520-018-0645-3
Schoville, Benjamin J., Wilkins, Jayne, Ritzman, Terrence, Oestmo, Simen and Brown, Kyle S. (2017). The performance of heat-treated silcrete backed pieces in actualistic and controlled complex projectile experiments. Journal of Archaeological Science, 14, 302-317. doi: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2017.05.053
Wilkins, Jayne, Brown, Kyle S., Oestmo, Simen, Pereira, Telmo, Ranhorn, Kathryn L., Schoville, Benjamin J. and Marean, Curtis W. (2017). Lithic technological responses to Late Pleistocene glacial cycling at Pinnacle Point Site 5-6, South Africa. PLoS One, 12 (3) 0174051, e0174051. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0174051
Schoville, Benjamin J., Browne, Kyle S., Harris, Jacob A. and Wilkins, Jayne (2016). New experiments and a model-driven approach for interpreting middle stone age lithic point function using the edge damage distribution method. PLoS One, 11 (10) e0164088, e0164088. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0164088
Schoville, Benjamin J. (2016). Landscape variability in tool-use and edge damage formation in South African Middle Stone Age lithic assemblages. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, 51 (2), 292-293. doi: 10.1080/0067270x.2016.1147783
Wilkins, Jayne, Schoville, Benjamin J., Brown, Kyle S. and Chazan, Michael (2015). Kathu Pan 1 points and the assemblage-scale, probabilistic approach: A response to Rots and Plisson, "Projectiles and the abuse of the use-wear method in a search for impact". Journal of Archaeological Science, 54, 294-299. doi: 10.1016/j.jas.2014.12.003
Oestmo, Simen, Schoville, Benjamin J., Wilkins, Jayne and Marean, Curtis W. (2014). A Middle Stone Age paleoscape near the Pinnacle Point caves, Vleesbaai, South Africa. Quaternary International, 350, 147-168. doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2014.07.043
Wilkins, Jayne, Schoville, Benjamin J. and Brown, Kyle S. (2014). An experimental investigation of the functional hypothesis and evolutionary advantage of stone-tipped spears. PLoS One, 9 (8) e104514, e104514. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0104514
Schoville, Benjamin J. (2014). Testing a taphonomic predictive model of edge damage formation with Middle Stone Age points from Pinnacle Point Cave 13B and Die Kelders Cave 1, South Africa. Journal of Archaeological Science, 48 (1), 84-95. doi: 10.1016/j.jas.2013.10.002
Schoville, Benjamin J. and Otarola-Castillo, Erik (2014). A model of hunter-gatherer skeletal element transport: the effect of prey body size, carriers, and distance. Journal of Human Evolution, 73, 1-14. doi: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2014.06.004
Wilkins, Jayne, Schoville, Benjamin J., Brown, Kyle S. and Chazan, Michael (2012). Evidence for early hafted hunting technology. Science, 338 (6109), 942-946. doi: 10.1126/science.1227608
Brown, Kyle S., Marean, Curtis W., Jacobs, Zenobia, Schoville, Benjamin J., Oestmo, Simen, Fisher, Erich C., Bernatchez, Jocelyn, Karkanas, Panagiotis and Matthews, Thalassa (2012). An early and enduring advanced technology originating 71,000 years ago in South Africa. Nature, 491 (7425), 590-593. doi: 10.1038/nature11660
Schoville, Benjamin J. and Brown, Kyle S. (2010). Comparing lithic assemblage edge damage distributions: examples from the late Pleistocene and preliminary experimental results. Vis-a-vis: Explorations in Anthropology, 10 (2), 34-49.
Schoville, Benjamin J. (2010). Frequency and distribution of edge damage on Middle Stone Age lithic points, Pinnacle Point 13B, South Africa. Journal of Human Evolution, 59 (3-4), 378-391. doi: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2010.07.015
Schoville, Benjamin J., Burris, Lucy E. and Todd, Lawrence C. (2009). Experimental artifact transport by harvester ants (Pogonomyrmex sp.): implications for patterns in the archaeological record. Journal of Taphonomy, 7 (4), 285-303.

Newspaper Article

Schoville, Benjamin, von der Meden, Jessica, Pickering, Robyn and Khumalo, Wendy (2021, 04 01). Ancient southern Kalahari was more important to human evolution than previously thought The Conversation Africa