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Faculty:

Rebecca Rogers Ackermann, associate professor  (MA Arizona, PhD Washington U. in St. Louis).  Hominin evolution; Anthropoid variation & integration; craniofacial development and morphology; primate models; quantitative methods.  

David Braun, senior lecturer  (PhD Rutgers).  Ecological and evolutionary aspects of early hominin technology; lithic analysis; digital image analysis; Old World Palaeolithic archaeology. 

Shadreck Chirikure, senior lecturer  ( PhD UCL).  Iron Age metallurgy in southern Africa; heritage in contemporary Africa.  

Simon L. Hall, senior lecturer (MA Wits, PhD Stellenbosch).  Hunter-gathers & farmers; Stone/ Iron Age interaction; landscape sharing.

John Parkington, emeritus professor (MA PhD Cantab).  Hunter-gatherers; paleoenvironmental reconstruction and human ecology; prehistoric art; coastal archaeology

Judith Sealy, professor and head  (MSc PhD Cape Town).  Archaeometry; stable isotopes; prehistoric southern Africa.  

Riashna Sithaldeen, lecturer (BSc Cape Town, doctoral candidate). Primate evolution; baboon phylogeny and phylogeography; earth systems science.

Andrew B. Smith, emeritus professor (PhD Berkeley).  Prehistoric pastoralism; origins of food production; ethnohistory. 

Deano Stynder, lecturer (PhD Cape Town).  African fauna; palaeoenvironments

Nikolaas van der Merwe,  emeritus professor (MA PhD Yale).   Isotopes; palaeodiets; palaeoenvironments; archaeometallurgy. 

 

Research Staff:

Mr. Dave Halkett  Archaeology Contracts Office 

Mr. Tim Hart  Archaeology Contracts Office

Ms. Louisa Hutten  Scientific Officer; archaeological faunal remains. email: Louisa.HuttenATuct.ac.za

Mr. John Lanham   Principal Scientific Officer; stable isotope mass spectrometry.  email John.LanhamATuct.ac.za

Mr. Jayson Orton   Archaeology Contracts Office 

Dr. Lita Webley   Archaeology Contracts Office 

 

Research Associates:

Dr. Yvonne Brink  Historical Archaeology Research Group. interpretation of symbolism and complexity in eighteenth century Cape architecture.  

Dr. Antonieta Jerardino  reconstruction of pre-colonial subsistence and settlement patterns of the western Cape coast. 

Mr. Pieter Jolly  contact period rock art; history of San-Nguni/Sotho interaction.

Ms. Jane Klose  Historical Archaeology Research Group. analysis of historical ceramics; Oriental porcelains

Dr. Yin Lam  faunal analysis. 

Dr. Antonia Malan  Historical Archaeology Research Group.  archaeology of the colonial period; archives and vernacular architecture

Mr. Tony Manhire   rock art; later stone age; prehistory of the southwestern Cape. 

Dr. Duncan Miller   Archaeology Materials Laboratory.  archaeometallurgy; materials analysis; palaeoenvironments of the West Coast.   

Dr. Susan Pfeiffer   University of Toronto; biological anthropology

Dr. Carmel Schrire  Rutgers University; historical archaeology.  

Dr. Andrew Sillen, professor (MA PhD Pennsylvania)  paleoanthropology; paleodietary research; diagenesis and taphonomy; the Pleistocene of Southern Africa; the Natufian of the Levant.

Dr. Ian Watts  origins of symbolism; study of prehistoric pigments; MSA. 

Dr. Margot Winer   St Mary’s College, California; historical archaeology. 

Dr. Sarah Wurz  Iziko Museums of Cape Town; stone Age archaeology, cognitive archaeology. 

 

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