Irene Esteban

About Irene Esteban

Irene Esteban, With an exceptional h-index of 17 and a recent h-index of 14 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at University of the Witwatersrand, specializes in the field of Archaeology, Prehistory, Archaeobotany, Paleoecology, South African Stone Age.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Mwulu’s Cave, South Africa

Plants, people and fire: Phytolith and FTIR analyses of the post-Howiesons Poort occupations at Border Cave (KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)

Peering into the unseen: Novel methods in identifying shell taxa from archaeological micro-fragments

Geoarchaeology and zooarchaeology of Border Cave, South Africa: initial multiproxy considerations of stratigraphy and site formation processes from the Backwell et al. excavations

Border Cave: A 227,000-year-old archive from the southern African interior

Fire and human management of late Holocene ecosystems in southern Africa

Identifying taxa from highly degraded shell micro-fragments in anthropogenic soils from Waterfall Bluff, South Africa

Taphonomy, environment or human plant exploitation strategies?: Deciphering changes in Pleistocene-Holocene plant representation at Umhlatuzana rockshelter, South Africa

Irene Esteban Information

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Citations(all)

728

Citations(since 2020)

592

Cited By

345

hIndex(all)

17

hIndex(since 2020)

14

i10Index(all)

21

i10Index(since 2020)

20

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Irene Esteban Skills & Research Interests

Archaeology

Prehistory

Archaeobotany

Paleoecology

South African Stone Age

Top articles of Irene Esteban

Mwulu’s Cave, South Africa

2023/8/18

Plants, people and fire: Phytolith and FTIR analyses of the post-Howiesons Poort occupations at Border Cave (KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)

2023/1/15

Peering into the unseen: Novel methods in identifying shell taxa from archaeological micro-fragments

Journal of Archaeological Science

2022/11/1

Irene Esteban
Irene Esteban

H-Index: 11

Geoarchaeology and zooarchaeology of Border Cave, South Africa: initial multiproxy considerations of stratigraphy and site formation processes from the Backwell et al. excavations

2022/9/1

Border Cave: A 227,000-year-old archive from the southern African interior

2022/9/1

Fire and human management of late Holocene ecosystems in southern Africa

2022/8/1

Identifying taxa from highly degraded shell micro-fragments in anthropogenic soils from Waterfall Bluff, South Africa

EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts

2022/5

Irene Esteban
Irene Esteban

H-Index: 11

Erich Fisher
Erich Fisher

H-Index: 22

Taphonomy, environment or human plant exploitation strategies?: Deciphering changes in Pleistocene-Holocene plant representation at Umhlatuzana rockshelter, South Africa

2021/9/10

Investigating the impact of Pleistocene climate change on early humans in the southern Kalahari

EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts

2021/4

Ecosystem engineering in the Quaternary of the West Coast of South Africa

2021/1

Coastal palaeoenvironments and hunter-gatherer plant-use at Waterfall Bluff rock shelter in Mpondoland (South Africa) from MIS 3 to the Early Holocene

2020/12/15

Irene Esteban
Irene Esteban

H-Index: 11

Enno Schefuß
Enno Schefuß

H-Index: 38

New excavations at Umhlatuzana Rockshelter, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: a stratigraphic and taphonomic evaluation

African Archaeological Review

2020/12

Irene Esteban
Irene Esteban

H-Index: 11

Andrew S Carr
Andrew S Carr

H-Index: 25

Ecometrics and the paleoecological implications of Pleistocene faunas from the western coastal plains of the Cape Floristic Region, South Africa

Journal of Quaternary Science

2020/11

Plant taphonomy, flora exploitation and palaeoenvironments at the Middle Stone Age site of Mwulu’s Cave (Limpopo, South Africa): an archaeobotanical and mineralogical approach

Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

2020/9

Irene Esteban
Irene Esteban

H-Index: 11

Paloma De La Peña
Paloma De La Peña

H-Index: 16

Fire and grass-bedding construction 200 thousand years ago at Border Cave, South Africa

Science

2020/8/14

Palaeoenvironments and plant availability during MIS 6 to MIS 3 on the edge of the Palaeo-Agulhas Plain (south coast, South Africa) as indicated by phytolith analysis at …

2020/5/1

Irene Esteban
Irene Esteban

H-Index: 11

Dan Cabanes
Dan Cabanes

H-Index: 22

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