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Name: Marlize Lombard
Location: House 10, Humanities Research Village Bunting Road Campus
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Contact Details:
Tel: 011 559 1744
Email: mlombard@uj.ac.za
About Prof Marlize Lombard
Professor with Research Focus in Stone Age Archaeology
Sometime during the Middle Stone Age, in sub-Saharan Africa, Homo sapiens evolved biologically, behaviourally and cognitively. My research agenda is geared towards the generation of knowledge about all three of these evolutionary processes in the southern African context and how they relate to each other. The long-term aim is to create an integrated, detailed and holistic understanding of the evolution of our species in the region since about 500 000 years ago.
The Palaeo-TrACKS (Tracing Ancient Cognition and Knowledge Systems through the Stone Age) Research Programme is funded through an African Origins Platform Grant from the National Research Foundation of South Africa, and is managed in four distinct research legs:
Micro-TrACKS (Tracing Ancient Cognition and Knowledge Systems through Micro-methods)
Geno-TrACKS (Tracing Stone Age Population History through DNA)
Mind-TrACKS (Tracing Ancient Cognition through Stone Age Technologies)
TrACKS on the Highveld (Tracing Hominin/Human Presence on the trans-Vaal Highveld Grassland Bioregion during the Stone Age)
All four tracks are intimately linked with the research programmes of local and international collaborators. Together we aim to explore: a) the Stone Age occupational history of southern Africa, b) behavioural and cognitive evolutionary trends during the Stone Age, and c) indigenous knowledge systems associated with the Middle and Later Stone Ages of southern Africa.
Opportunities
Researchers interested in joining the Palaeo-TrACKS research group as honorary research fellows, post-Doctoral research fellows, PhD or Masters students, may contact me via email.
Publications
Contact details
mlombard@uj.ac.za
Current Senior Research Fellows associated with the Palaeo-TrACKS group:
Prof Anders Högberg
Publications: Academia.edu
Dr Geeske Langejans
Publications: Academia.edu
Dr Gerrit Dusseldorp
Publications: https://johannesburg.academia.edu/GerritDusseldorp
Justin Pargeter
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.za/citations?user=8zCXvAUAAAAJ&hl=en
Publications: Academia.edu
Research Associate
Dr Justin Bradfield
Publications: Academia.edu
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
Dr Katherine Kyriacou
Publications: Academia.edu