2019 Population structure and the evolution of Homo sapiens in Africa. Evolutionary Anthropology 38: 179-188. (DOI: 10.1002/evan.21788)
2018 Hominin dispersals in the Old World. In (Scarre, C. Ed.) The Human Past: World Prehistory & the Development of Human Societies, Fourth Edition, pp. 71-107. London: Thames & Hudson.
2017 Counting and miscounting sheep: genetic evidence for pervasive misclassification of wild fauna as domestic stock. Southern African Humanities 30: 53-69 (with K. A. Horsburgh and J. V. Moreno-Mayer).
2017 Finding the First Americans. Science 358 (6363): 592-594. (with Todd J. Braje, Tom D. Dillehay, Jon M. Erlandson, and Torben C. Rick).
2017 Language and human evolution. Journal of Neurolinguistics 43, 204-221.
2016 Large mammal and tortoise bones from Elands Bay Cave: Implications for Later Stone Age environment and ecology. Southern African Humanities: 29: 259–282 (with Kathryn Cruz-Uribe).
2016 Shellfishing and human evolution. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 44:198-205. (with Douglas W. Bird).
2016 Beware the springbok in sheep's clothing: How secure are the faunal identifications upon which we build our models? African Archaeological Review 33: 1-9. (with K. Ann Horsburgh and Jayson Orton)
2013 Archaeological shellfish size and later human evolution in Africa. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110: 10910-10915 (with Teresa Steele).
2013 The Middle and Later Stone Age faunal remains from Diepkloof Rock Shelter, Western Cape, South Africa. Journal of Archaeological Science 40: 3453-3462 (with Teresa Steele).
2013 Modern Human Origins. General Anthropology 20(1):1-4.
2013 Hominin dispersals in the Old World. In (Scarre, C. Ed.) The Human Past: World Prehistory & the Development of Human Societies, Third Edition, pp. 84-123. London: Thames & Hudson.
2013 Early dates for cattle from Namaqualand, South Africa: implications for the origins of herding in southern Africa. Antiquity 87: 108–120 (with Jayson Orton, Peter Mitchell, Teresa Steele, and K. Ann Horsburgh).
2011 Two Holocene rock shelter deposits from the Knersvlakte, southern Namaqualand, South Africa. Southern African Humanities 23: 109-150 (with J. Orton, A. Mackay, S. Schwortz, and T. E. Steele).
2011 Review of fossil phocid and otariid seals from the southern and western coasts of South Africa. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 66: 14-24 (with G. Avery).
2011 The abundance of eland, buffalo, and wild pigs in Middle and Later Stone Age sites. Journal of Human Evolution: 60 309-314 (with T. D. Weaver and T. E. Steele).
2010 Comment on the paleoenvironment of Ardipithecus ramidus. Science 328: 1105d (with T. E. Cerling, N. E. Levin, J. Quade, J. G. Wynn, D. L. Fox, J. D. Kingston, and F. H. Brown).
2010 A Howiesons Poort tradition of engraving ostrich eggshell containers dated to 60,000 years ago at Diepkloof Rock Shelter, South Africa. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107: 6180-6185 (with P-J. Texier, G. Porraz, J. Parkington, J-Ph. Rigaud, C. Miller, C. Tribolo, C. Cartwright, A. Coudennau. T. E. Steele, and C. Verna).
2010 Morphometric identification of bovid metapodials to genus and implications for taxon-free habitat reconstruction. Journal of Archaeological Science 37: 389-401 (with R. G. Franciscus and T. E. Steele).
2009 Darwin and the recent African origin of modern humans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106 (38): 16007–16009.
2008 Out of Africa and the evolution of human behavior. Evolutionary Anthropology 17: 267–281.
2007 The mammalian fauna associated with a fossil hominin skull and later Acheulean artifacts at Elandsfontein, Western Cape Province, South Africa. Journal of Human Evolution 52: 164-186.
2004 The Ysterfontein 1 Middle Stone Age site, South Africa, and early human exploitation of coastal resources. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 101: 5708-15.