DEACON, H. J. & THACKERAY, J. F. 1984. Late Pleistocene environmental changes and implications from the archaeological record in southern Africa. In Vogel, J. C. (ed.) Late Cainozoic palaeoclimates of the southern hemisphere. Rotterdam: Balkema.
DEACON, H. J. 1985. Book Review: Faunal remains from Klasies River Mouth by L. R. Binford. South African Archaeological Bulletin 40:59-60.
DEACON, H. J. & GELEIJNSE, V. B. 1988. The stratigraphy and sedimentology of the main site sequence, Klasies River, South Africa. South African Archaeological Bulletin 43: 5-14.
DEACON, H. J., TALMA, A. S. & Vogel, J. C. 1988. Biological and cultural development of Pleistocene people in an Old World southern continent In: Prescott, J. R. (ed) Early Man in the southern Hemisphere. Supplement to Archaeometry: Australasian Studies 1988. Department of Physics and Mathematical Physics, University of Adelaide, Adelaide: S23-S31.
DEACON, H. J. 1988. The origins of anatomically modern people and the southern African evidence. Palaeoecology of Africa 19:193-200.
DEACON, H. J. 1989. Late Pleistocene palaeoecology and archaeology in the southern Cape, South Africa. In Mellars, P. & Stringer, C. B.(eds.). The human revolution: behavioural and biological perspectives on the origins of modern humans. Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press: 547-564.
DEACON, H. J. 1989. Looking backwards to look forward. South African Journal of Science 85:21-22.
GRUN, R., SHACKLETON, N. J. & DEACON, H. J. 1990. Electron-spin-resonance dating of tooth enamel from Klasies River Mouth Cave. Current Anthropology 31:427-432.
DEACON, H. J. 1991. Historical background of invasions in the southern African mediterranean region. In Groves, R. H. & Di Castri, F. (eds) Biogeography of Mediterranean invasions. Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge: 51-57.
RIGHTMIRE, G. P. & DEACON, H. J. 1991. Comparative studies of Late Pleistocene human remains from Klasies River Mouth, South Africa. Journal of Human Evolution 20:131-156.
DEACON, H. J. & SCHUURMAN, R. 1992. The origins of modern people - the evidence from Klasies River. In: Brauer, G. & Smith, F. H. (eds) Continuity or replacement: controversies in Homo sapiens evolution. Rotterdam, Balkema.
DEACON, H. J. 1992. Peopling of fynbos. In: Cowling, R. M. (ed) The ecology of fynbos: nutrients, fire and diversity. Oxford University Press, Cape Town.
DEACON, H. J., JURY, M. & ELLIS, F. 1992. Selective regime and time. In: Cowling, R. M. (ed) The ecology of fynbos, nutrients, fire and diversity. Oxford University Press, Cape Town.
BRAUER, G., DEACON, H. J. & ZIPFEL, F. 1992. Comment on the
new maxillary finds from Klasies River, South Africa. Journal of Human
Evolution 23:419-422.
DEACON, H. J. (1992). Southern Africa and modern human origins.
Transactions of the Royal Society London B 37:177-183.
CORFIELD, V., VANDENPLAS, S., DEACON, H. J. & VAN HELDEN, P. 1992. Ancient DNA genotyping: HLA and CA repeats by PCR. Ancient DNA newsletter 1(2):31-34.
DEACON, H. J. 1993. Planting an idea: an archaeology of Stone Age gatherers in South Africa. South African Archaeological Bulletin 48:86-93.
DEACON, H. J. 1995. Two Late Pleistocene-Holocene archaeological depositories from the southern Cape, South Africa. South African Archaeological Bulletin 50:121-131.
DEACON, H.J. & WURZ, S. 1996. Klasies river main site, cave 2: a Howiesons Poort occurrence. Proceedings of the 10th Pan African Congress on Prehistory and Related Disciplines, Harare.
DEACON, H. J. 1996. Book Review: Olduvai Gorge, Vol.5: excavations in Beds lll, lV and the Masek Beds by M.D. Leakey & D.A. Roe. South African Archaeological Bulletin 51:41-42.
DEACON, H. J. & WURZ, S. 1996. Klasies River main site, cave 2: a Howiesons Poort occurrence. Proceedings of the 10th Pan African Congress for Prehistory and Related Studies. Harare: University of Zimbabwe Publications: pp. 213-221.
DEACON, H. J. 1996. Southern Africa in the debate on the origins of modern people. In: Bar-Yosef, O., Cavalli-Sforza, L. and Piperno, M. (eds). The origins of modern man, The Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Colloquium X, Xlll UISPP Congress, pp. 167-172. Forli: A.B.A.C.O. Edizioni.
DEACON, H. J. 1997. African cultures in transition and adaptation. In: J.O. Vogel (ed.) Encyclopedia of Precolonial Africa: arahaeology, history, languages, cultures, and environments. AltamiraPress: Walnut Creek, pp: 320-324.
DEACON, H. J. 1998. Book Review: Prehistory of the Chitrakot Falls, Central India by Z. Cooper. South African Archaeological Bulletin 53:138-139.
DEACON, H. J. 1998. Elandsfontein and Klasies River revisited. In: Ashton, N.M., Healy, F. and Pettitt, P.B. (eds). A master of his craft: papers in Stone Age Archaeology presented to John Wymer. Oxford: OxBow.pp. 23-28.
DEACON, H. J. & DEACON, J. 1999. Human beginnings in South Africa: uncovering the secrets of the Stone Age. Cape Town: David Philip. 214 pp. http://www.davidphilip.co.za/books/human.htm
MILLER, G.H., BEAUMONT, P.B., DEACON, H.J., BROOKS, A.S., HARE, P.E. & JULL, A.J.T. 1999. Earliest modern humans in southern Africa dated by isoleucine epimerization in ostrich eggshell. Quaternary Geochronology (Quaternary Science Reviews)18:1573-1548.
DEACON, H.J. 2001. Modern human emergence: an African archaeological perspective. In: Tobias, P.V., Raath, M.A., Maggi-Cecchi, J. & Doyle, G.A. (eds). Humanity from African Naissance to Coming Millennia - Colloquia in Human Biology and Palaeoanthropology: pp.217-226. Florence: Florence University Press.
DEACON, H.J. 2001. After ‘after the Australopithecines’. In: Barham, L. & Robson Brown, K. Human Roots – Africa and Asia in the Middle Pleistocene. pp.1-3. Bristol: Western Academic & Specialist Press.
DEACON, H.J. & WURZ, S. 2001. Middle Pleistocene populations and the emergence of modern behaviour. In: Barham, L. & Robson Brown, K. Human Roots – Africa and Asia in the Middle Pleistocene. pp.55-63. Bristol: Western Academic & Specialist Press.
DEACON, H.J. 2001. Development of prehistoric archaeological studies in South Africa. In: Murray, T. (ed). The encylopedia of the history of archaeology. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO.
RIGHTMIRE, G.P. & DEACON, H.J. 2001. New human from Middle Stone Age deposits at Klasies River, South Africa.
DEACON, H.J. (in press). The Out-of-Africa hypothesis and African archaeology. Praehistoria 3.
DEACON, H.J. & WURZ, S. (in press). A Late Pleistocene archive of life at the coast, Klasies River. Stahl, A.B. (ed). African archaeology: a critical introduction. Oxford: Blackwell.
WURZ, S., LE ROUX, N.J., DEACON, H.J. & GARDNER, S. (in press). Discriminating between MIS 5e/d and MIS 5c Middle Stone Age assemblages at Klasies River through technological analysis and biplot methodology. Journal of Anthropological Science.
WURZ, S. 1999. The Howiesons Poort Backed Artefacts from Klasies River: an argument for Symbolic behaviour. South African Archaeological Bulletin 54: 38-50.
WURZ, S. 2000. The Middle Stone Age at Klasies River, South Africa. D.Phil. dissertation. University of Stellenbosch.
WURZ, S., LE ROUX, N.J., DEACON, H.J. & GARDNER, S. (in press). Discriminating between MIS 5e/d and MIS 5c Middle Stone Age assemblages at Klasies River through technological analysis and biplot methodology. Journal of Anthropological Science.
WURZ, S. 2002. Variability in the Middle Stone Age lithic sequence, 115 000 – 60 000 years ago at Klasies River, South Africa. Journal of Archaeological Science 29(9): 1001-1015.