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Dated Holocene Human Remains from South Africa: Recalibration and Broad Contextualization

Loftus, Emma, Marlize Lombard and Maryna Steyn. 2024. Dated Holocene Human Remains from South Africa: Recalibration and Broad Contextualizat...

Marlize Lombard Marlize Lombard Maryna Steyn Maryna Steyn

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Assessment of stature in Iron Age populations of South Africa

Steyn, Maryna. 2023. Assessment of stature in Iron Age populations of South Africa. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 15(12), 191...

Maryna Steyn Maryna Steyn

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Contemporary urbanism on three continents - a study of the city regions of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania), Gauteng (South Africa), São Paulo (Brasil) and Paris (France)

Bioarchaeology is the study of human remains found in archaeological contexts, also taking these contexts into account to help understand humans on the landscape.

Maryna Steyn Maryna Steyn Alan Mabin Alan Mabin

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Controlling Landscapes and Bodies

During my time at STIAS I will collaborate with Stellenbosch and Cape Town faculty in both the humanities and the sciences to look at the positioning and chronology of Egyptian rock art in the Eastern Sahara in order to establish whether the animal or human images shown reflect changes in the environment and how it was manipulated, and ways in which this can be proven.

Salima Ikram Salima Ikram
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