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Zenobia Jacobs is a South African who graduated from the University
of Stellenbosch and has a PhD from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. Her
PhD involved the development of luminescence based dating techniques for
dating Middle Stone Age (MSA) archaeological sites in South Africa. Her
research currently focuses on further technique development to increase the
precision and accuracy with which optically stimulated luminescence (OSL)
dating can be applied to a range of sedimentary types, focusing in particular
on the development of single quartz grain techniques. |
Zenobia Jacobs
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Her main interest is in using OSL dating as a means to investigate the when and where of anatomical and behavioural origins of modern humans (Homo sapiens) and the palaeo-environmental context in which this origins and evolution occurred. She is currently employed as a senior scientist in Environmentek at the CSIR in Pretoria, where she is part of the Quaternary Dating Research Unit (QUADRU). In AEON she will continue her current research but will also use OSL dating to investigate landscape evolution and reconstruct palaeo-environments during the Pleistocene and Holocene. |
