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The
Department of Archaeology offers postgraduate Honours, Masters, and Doctoral degrees
in Archaeology, and coordinates postgraduate degrees in Quaternary
Science (BSc/MSc) and Archaeology & Environmental Science (BSc).
Additionally, members of our staff have co-supervised students from a
wide variety of other departments, including Geology, Environmental and
Geographical Science, Botany, Zoology, and Computer
Science. As a result - and as is seen below - student theses
span a wide range of interesting, diverse topics!
Masters & PhD Students 2008 Mark Anderson (PhD) The Late 'Iron Age' Tswana towns of the Bankenveld: Towards an understanding of variability, complexity and identity. Supervisor: S Hall. Wil Archer (MSc) Raw Material Economy of the Acheulian Technology of the Western Cape, South Africa. Supervisor: D Braun Kyle Brown (PhD). Raw Material Selection and Economy in the Middle Stone Age at Pinnacle Point, Southern Cape, South Africa. Supervisor: D Braun. Tessa Campbell. (PhD) Evaluating the emergence, spread and evolution of tuberculosis in South Africa. Supervisor: RR Ackermann & AC Stone (Arizona State) Mariagrazia Galimberti (PhD) Oxygen isotope analysis of Middle Stone Age shellfish. Supervisor: JC Sealy & J Lee-Thorp. Catherine Gray (PhD EGS) Investigation of chronological and palynological aspects of the Orange River deltaic mudbelt. Co-supervisors: M Meadows (EGS) & J Lee-Thorp. Jean Gray (MPhil) Ceramics from the Mateke area of southwestern Zimbabwe. Supervisor: T Maggs & S Hall. Andrea Hickman (MSc) Investigating the use of bone density fractionation as a methodological tool in stable light isotope analysis. Supervisor: JC Sealy. Phillip Hine (MPhil) An archaeological study of stone-wall fish traps along the Southern Cape coast. Supervisor: JC Sealy, D Halkett, & T Hart. Wendy
Konstantellos (PhD).
Dental
and other variation in Holocene Khoesan material from Frans Kruger (MPhil) Investigation of Mzilikaze’s Ndebele during the early 19th century, Rustenburg and Pilanesberg districts, South Africa. Supervisor: S Hall. Katherine Kyriacou. (MPhil) A re-investigation of Hoffman's/Robberg Cave. Supervisor: JC Sealy. Jenna Lavin (MSc). Paleoecology of the KBS member in the Koobi Fora Formation of Northern Kenya: Implications for Pleistocene Hominin Behavior. Supervisor: D. Braun. Morongwa Mosothwane (PhD Wits Archaeology) Molecular reconstruction of the diet of early and later farming communities in eastern Botswana. Co-supervisors: K Sadr (Wits) & JC Sealy. Mamakomoreng Nkhasi (MPhil) An investigation of aggregation types in 17th – 19th century Tswana towns of North-West Province. Supervisor: S Hall. Eileen Off (PhD) Quantification of craniofacial variation, integration, and evolutionary diversification in baboons. Supervisor: RR Ackermann. Dana Rosenstein (MSc) Correlating change in the technology of ceramic production with the advent of 18th century Western Tswana towns. Supervisor: S Hall. Lauren Schroeder (MSc). A re-evaluation of the morphological affinities of early Homo. Supervisor: RR Ackermann. Riashna Sithaldeen (PhD) Phylogeny and phylogeography of the chacma baboon (Papio ursinus): a genetic study. Supervisor: RR Ackermann. Karen van Niekerk (PhD) Fish remains from the Middle and Later Stone Age of South Africa. Supervisor: J Sealy. Steven Walker (PhD) MSA Landscape Utilization, Evidence from a Pleistocene Lakebed. Supervisor: D Braun.
Postdoctoral Research Fellows 2006
Recent Masters/Doctoral Graduates 2007 Jacqui Codron, PhD. Dietary responses of African elephants (Loxodonta africana) to long-term environmental change in the Kruger National Park. Supervisor: JC Sealy. Genevieve Dewar, PhD. The archaeology of Namaqualand. Supervisor: JC Sealy. Rudy Neeser, MSc. (distinction) The use of spatial deformation for correcting the taphonomic distortion of hominid crania in South Africa. Co-supervisors: J Gain (Computer Science) & RR Ackermann.
2006 Daryl Codron, PhD. The ecological and evolutionary significance of browsing and grazing in savanna ungulates. Supervisors: JC Sealy, JA Lee-Thorp (Bradford), M Sponheimer (Colorado). Erin
Finnegan, MPhil. Buried beyond Buitengracht:
Interrogating cultural variability in the historic 'informal' burial
ground of Prestwich Street, Cape Town. Supervisor: S Hall. Nicolaas Fourie, MSc (distinction). Dietary ecology and niche separation in three genera (Parapapio, Theropithecus and Cercopithecoides) of South African Plio-Pleistocene Cercopithecoidea. Supervisors: RR Ackermann & J Lee-Thorp. Frederick Kyalo Manthi, PhD. The Pliocene micromammalian fauna from Kanapoi, northwestern Kenya, and its contribution to understanding the environment of Australopithecus anamensis. Supervisors: J Parkington & DM Avery (Iziko Museums). Deano Stynder, PhD 2006. A quantitative assessment of variation in Holocene Khoesan crania from South Africa’s western, south-western, southern and south-eastern coasts and coastal forelands. Supervisors: RR Ackermann & JC Sealy.
2005 Ben Ludwig, MSc. A comparison of hunter-gatherer material culture from Matjes River Rock Shelter and the Robberg Peninsula. Supervisor: JC Sealy. Jeannette Smith, PhD (Wits). Agropastoral sustainability and climate change in the Shashe Limpopo basin from 900 AD. Supervisors: S Hall & J Lee-Thorp.
2004 Jacqui Codron, MSc. (Botany). Dietary variability of the African elephant (Loxodonta africana). Supervisors: J Lee-Thorp & W Bond (Botany). Thalassa Matthews, PhD. Micromammalian faunas from Langebaanweg and Hoedjiespunt. Supervisors: J Parkington & DM Avery (Iziko Museums). Jayson Orton, MA. The quartz conundrum: understanding the role of quartz in the composition of late Pleistocene and Holocene lithic assemblages from the Verlorenvlei area, Western Cape. Supervisor: J Parkington. Liesbet Schietecatte, MPhil. Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analyses of animal bone and soil samples from medieval Belgian sites. Supervisor: JC Sealy. Worth, David, PhD. Gas and grain: the conservation of networked industrial landscapes. Supervisor: M Hall
2003 Bastian Asmus, MSc. A digital recording system for creating a rock painting archive. Supervisor: J Parkington. Fiona Clayton, MSc. Weaning patterns in the Later Stone Age as reconstructed through nitrogen isotope analyses of the skeletons from Matjes River Rock Shelter. Supervisor: JC Sealy. Daryl Codron, MSc. (Quaternary Science) Ecological variability of chacma baboons (Papio ursinus) living in the South African savannah based on stable light isotopes. Supervisor: J Lee-Thorp. Conny Meister, MSc. Photogrammetric approaches to the recording of handprints. Supervisor: J Parkington. Michael Scott, MA. Ju'hoansi Bushmen of /Gam, Namibia, and their pastoralist neighbours: Contact, Crisis of Identity, Hxaro, and Implications for the Past. Supervisor: A Smith. Tobias Tonner, MSc. A MapInfo data base for the LSA site of Dunefield Midden. Supervisor: J Parkington.
2002 Corli Coetsee, MSc (Conservation Biology). Stable isotope study of interactions between herbivores,plants and nutrient cycling in Hluhluwe-Umfolozi Park, South Africa. Co-supervisors: NJ van der Merwe & W Stock (Botany). Tamara Franz-Odendaal, Ph.D. Analysis of dental pathologies in the herbivores of Langebaanweg and their palaeoenvironmental implications. Supervisors: J Lee-Thorp & A Chinsamy-Turan (Zoology). Frederick Manthi, MSc. (distinction). The taphonomy of a micromammalian faunal assemblage from the Saldanha Bay yacht club: a contribution to the study of the South African west coast palaeoenvironments. Supervisors: J Parkington & DM Avery. C. Muller, MA. Investigation of possible dietary differences between the inhabitants of the Robberg/Plettenberg Bay and Matjes River Rock Shelter in the Later Stone Age: an isotopic approach. Supervisor: JC Sealy. Amanda Rau, Ph.D. Late Quaternary history of Agulhas-Benguela interactions from two sediment cores on the western continental slope of South Africa. Supervisors: JA Lee-Thorp and J Rogers (Geological Sciences).
2001 Harriet Clift, MA. A sortie into the archaeology of the Moravian mission station, Genadenal. Supervisors: M Hall & A Malan. Nirdev Desai, MSc. The technological, social and economic aspects of gold production and use by the Iron Age of southern Africa. Supervisor: D Miller. Julie Luyt, MSc. (distinction). Revisiting palaeoenvironments of the hominid-bearing Plio-Pleistocene sites: new isotopic evidence from Sterkfontein. Supervisor: J Lee-Thorp U. Seeman, PhD. The British military occupation of the Cape 1795 - 1815 the case of York redoubt. Supervisor: M Hall.
2000 P. Nilssen, PhD. An actualistic butchery study in South Africa and its implications for reconstructing hominid strategies of carcass acquisition and butchery in the Upper Pleistocene and Plio-Pleistocene. Supervisor: J Parkington.
1999 Glenda Cox, MA. Cobern Street burial ground: Investigating the identity and life histories of the underclass of eighteenth century Cape Town. Supervisor: JC Sealy. Zukisani Jakavula, MA. Archaeological sensitivity model: a cultural resource management exercise. Supervisor: J Parkington. N.S. Mavrodinov, MA. An assessment of the maritime archaeological potential of the eastern coastline of Table Bay, between the Old South Water Mouth and Blaauwberg. Supervisor: B Werz. C. Pietersen, MA. The role of archaeology within the urban environment: A study aimed at determining how the people of Cape Town relate to their environment. Supervisor: M Hall.
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