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Masters & PhD Students 2011

Foreman Bandama (PhD) Indigenous metal production in South Africa: evidence from Rhenosterkloof. Supervisors: S Chirikure & S Hall.

Kyle Brown (PhD). Raw Material Selection and Economy in the Middle Stone Age at Pinnacle Point, Southern Cape, South Africa. Supervisor: D Braun & J Sealy.

Tessa Campbell.  (PhD) Evaluating the emergence, spread and evolution of tuberculosis in South Africa.  Supervisor: RR Ackermann & AC Stone (Arizona State).

Catherine Gray  (PhD EGS)  Investigation of chronological and palynological aspects of the Orange River deltaic mudbelt.  Co-supervisors: M Meadows (EGS) & J Lee-Thorp. 

Wendy Black (PhD).  Dental and other variation in Holocene Khoesan material from South Africa.  Supervisor: RR Ackermann & JC Sealy.

Wesley Flear (MSc) Quantifying Technological Attributes in Acheulean Toolkits. Supervisor: D Braun.

Frans Kruger (MPhil) Investigation of Mzilikaze’s Ndebele during the early 19^th century, Rustenburg and Pilanesberg districts, South Africa. Supervisor: S Hall.

Katherine Kyriacou (PhD) Coastal resources and the development of early modern humans on the western Cape coast. Supervisors: D Braun & J Parkington

Ndivhuwo Eric Mathoho (MPhil) a technological and anthropological study of iron production in Venda, Limpopo Province. Supervisor: S Chirikure)

Marina Mubusisi (MA by Research) The preservation of Twyfelfontein World Heritage Site. Supervisors: S Chirikure & N Shepherd (CAS)

Yonatan Sahle Chemere (PhD) Hominin technological behavior and paleoenvironment during the later Middle Pleistocene in the Gademotta Formation, Main Ethiopian Rift. Supervisor: D Braun.

Lauren Schroeder (PhD).  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): the role of landscape in shaping contemporary genetic structure in the southern African baboon.  Supervisors: RR Ackermann.,& J Bishop (Zoology)

Karen van Niekerk  (PhD) Fish remains from the Middle and Later Stone Age of South Africa.  Supervisor: J Sealy.

Steven Walker (PhD) Supervisor: S Chirikure & J Sealy.

Kerryn Warren (MSc) Dental and cranial variation in Iron Age peoples from southern Africa. Supervisors: RR Ackermann & S Hall

Recent Masters/Doctoral Graduates 

2010

Will Archer , MSc (distinction). Raw Material Economy of the Acheulian Technology of the Western Cape, South Africa. Supervisor: D Braun

Mariagrazia Galimberti (PhD) Oxygen isotope analysis of Middle Stone Age shellfish.  Supervisor: JC Sealy & J Lee-Thorp.

Andrea Hickman (MSc) Investigating the use of bone density fractionation as a methodological tool in stable light isotope analysis.  Supervisor: JC Sealy.

Jenna Lavin, MSc (distinction).  Paleoecology of the KBS member in the Koobi Fora Formation of Northern Kenya: Implications for Pleistocene Hominin Behavior. Supervisor: D. Braun.

2009

Mark Anderson  (PhD) The historical archaeology of Marathodi: towards and understanding of space, identity and the organisation of production at an early 19th century Tswana Capital in the Pilansberg region of South Africa.  Supervisor: S Hall.

Jean Gray (MPhil) Ceramics from the Mateke area of southwestern Zimbabwe.  Supervisor: T Maggs & S Hall. 

Katherine Kyriacou. (MPhil) A re-investigation of Hoffman's/Robberg Cave.  Supervisor: JC Sealy.

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 17^th – 19^th century Tswana towns of North-West Province. Supervisor: S Hall.

Eileen Off (PhD) Craniofacial variation, integration, and evolutionary diversification in baboons (genus Papio).  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.

2008

Jacqui Codron, PhD.  Annals of ivory: perspectives in African elephant Loxodonta africana (Blumberg 1797) feeding ecology from a multi-decadal record.  Supervisor: JC Sealy & J Lee-Thorp

Phillip Hine (MPhil) An archaeological study of stone-wall fish traps along the Southern Cape coast.  Supervisor: JC Sealy, D Halkett, & T Hart. 

2007

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 (distinction).  (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 (distinction).   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 (distinction).  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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