| Human beginnings in South Africa: uncovering the secrets of the Stone Age HJ Deacon, J Deacon New Africa Books, 1999 | 801 | 1999 |
| The stone age archaeology of Southern Africa CG Sampson (No Title), 1974 | 526 | 1974 |
| South African and Lesotho stone Age sequence updated (I) M Lombard, LYN Wadley, J Deacon, S Wurz, I Parsons, M Mohapi, ... South African Archaeological Bulletin 67 (195), 123-144, 2012 | 476 | 2012 |
| The later stone age of southernmost Africa J Deacon BAR Publishing, 1984 | 371 | 1984 |
| Late Quaternary palaeoenvironments of southern Africa J Deacon, N Lancaster (No Title), 1988 | 366 | 1988 |
| Later Stone Age people and their descendants in southern Africa J Deacon, RG Klein AA Balkema, 1984 | 342 | 1984 |
| A history of African archaeology P Robertshaw (No Title), 1990 | 212 | 1990 |
| The power of a place in understanding southern San rock engravings J Deacon World Archaeology 20 (1), 129-140, 1988 | 179 | 1988 |
| “My place is the Bitterpits”: The home territory of Bleek and Lloyd's/Xam San informants J Deacon African Studies 45 (2), 135-155, 1986 | 149 | 1986 |
| Voices from the Past: Xam Bushmen and the Bleek and Lloyd Collection WHI Bleek, L Lloyd Witwatersrand University Press, 1996 | 145 | 1996 |
| Wilton: an assessment after fifty years J Deacon The South African Archaeological Bulletin 27 (105/106), 10-48, 1972 | 142 | 1972 |
| The evidence for herding at Boomplaas Cave in the southern Cape, South Africa HJ Deacon, J Deacon, M Brooker, ML Wilson The South African Archaeological Bulletin, 39-65, 1978 | 137 | 1978 |
| Changing patterns in the Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene prehistory of southern Africa as seen from the Nelson Bay Cave stone artifact sequence J Deacon Quaternary Research 10 (1), 84-111, 1978 | 133 | 1978 |
| Patterning in the radiocarbon dates for the Wilton/Smithfield complex in southern Africa J Deacon The South African Archaeological Bulletin 29 (113/114), 3-18, 1974 | 130 | 1974 |
| Correlation of palaeoenvironmental data from the Late Pleistocene and Holocene deposits at Boomplaas Cave, southern Cape HJ Deacon, J Deacon, A Scholtz, JF Thackeray, JS Brink, JC Vogel Late Cainozic palaeoclimates of the Southern Hemisphere. International …, 1984 | 125 | 1984 |
| Time and place: some observations on spatial and temporal patterning in the later stone age sequence in southern Africa [with comments and reply] J Parkington, C Cable, PL Carter, HJ Deacon, J Deacon, AJB Humphreys, ... The South African Archaeological Bulletin, 73-112, 1980 | 125 | 1980 |
| Weaving the fabric of Stone Age research in southern Africa J Deacon A history of African archaeology 41, 1990 | 113 | 1990 |
| Late pleistocene and holecene climatic change in Southern Africa JC Partridge, TC,* Avery, DM,** Botha, GA,*** Brink, JS,**** Deacon, J ... South African Journal of Science 86 (7), 302, 1990 | 110 | 1990 |
| Rock art conservation and tourism J Deacon Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 13, 376-396, 2006 | 109 | 2006 |
| An unsolved mystery at the Howieson's Poort name site J Deacon The South African Archaeological Bulletin, 110-120, 1995 | 83 | 1995 |
