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Export of bone for analysis and dating 2014

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The application to export South African heritage material is made to support the AMS radiocarbon dating and analysis of newly discovered human skeleton material held at the Department of Archaeology, University of Cape Town and Iziko Museums. The burials have been determined to hold no forensic relevance because of their obviously ancient time since death. They have been inventoried, but their future research value is contingent on determination of their antiquity through dating. A date for each is a crucial step to determining their research value. I propose to export a single rib, normally the right 6th rib, from each skeleton. Each sample will be photographed, with that image provided to the Department of Archaeology. I will send a portion of each rib to Oxford for radiocarbon dating. Another portion of the rib I will prepare as a histological section, from which I will estimate the person’s age at death. It is this procedure that dictates the identification of a specific rib, whenever possible. I hope I will also be able to determine something about the adequacy of the person’s diet from the pattern of bone remodelling. This is an ongoing research question. This research, including the dating, is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

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Each of the five adult skeletons that I propose to date has its own unique charactertistics. In overview, I propose to export, date and analyze microscopically the following: Paternoster (2013): young adult male 75 Mostert (2014): young adult male, young adult female, old adult female Strand & Long Streets (1971, recently identified as ancient): very young adult female I have a long and active history of scholarship into the past lives of the hunter-gatherers of the Later Stone Age. I will list some of my publications below.

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Thursday, June 26, 2014 - 16:31

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Pfeiffer S. 2007. The health of foragers: people of the Later Stone Age, southern Africa. In: Cohen MN, and Crane-Kramer G, editors. Ancient Health: Skeletal indicators of agricultural and economic intensification. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. p 223-236. Pfeiffer S. 2011. Pelvic stress injuries in a small-bodied forager. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 21(6):694-703. Pfeiffer S. 2012. Conditions for evolution of small adult body size in southern Africa. Current Anthropology 53(S6):S383-S394. Pfeiffer S. 2013. Population dynamics in the Southern African Holocene: Human Burials from the West Coast. In: Jerardino A, Braun D, and Malan A, editors. The Archaeology of the West Coast of South Africa: Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology. Oxford: Archaeopress. p 143-154. Pfeiffer S, and Harrington L. 2011a. Bioarchaeological Evidence for the Basis of Small Adult Stature in Southern Africa Growth, Mortality, and Small Stature. Current Anthropology 52(3):449-461. Pfeiffer S, and Harrington L. 2011b. Bioarchaeological evidence for the basis of small adult stature in southern Africa: growth, mortality and small stature. Current Anthropology 52(3):449-461. Pfeiffer S, and Sealy J. 2006. Body size among Holocene foragers of the Cape ecozone, southern Africa. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 129:1-11. Pfeiffer S, and van der Merwe NJ. 2004. Cranial injuries to Later Stone Age children from the Modder River Mouth, Southwestern Cape, South Africa. South African Archaeological Bulletin 59(180):59-65. Pfeiffer S, van der Merwe NJ, Parkington JE, and Yates R. 1999. Violent human death in the past: a case from the Western Cape. South African Journal of Science 95:137-140.
Thursday, June 26, 2014
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