Freshwater is an essential resource for human life; however, its future availability is of
ongoing concern due to the impacts of climate change, industry, and population pressures …

Isotopic analysis has become one of the most popular arenas of archaeological science, in
part due to its versatility to uncover intriguing insights from a range of organic and inorganic …

The southern Cape coastal region is important for understanding both the behavioural
history of modern humans, and regional and global climate dynamics, because it boasts a …

This study assesses the seasonal scheduling of shellfish harvesting among hunter-gatherer
populations along the southernmost coast of South Africa, based on a large number of serial …

Geochemical signatures from biogenic carbonates are being increasingly employed as
palaeoenvironmental proxies. In turn, many of these proxy archives including mollusc shells …

Fissurella maxima is a keyhole limpet that is abundant and well preserved in archaeological
shell midden sites along the coast of Chile, making it an appropriate species to use for …

Previously unpublished oxygen isotope ratios have been obtained from the opercula of
marine molluscs ('Turbo sarmaticus') from Klasies River Cave deposits (excavated initially …

In this article I present a summary of interests within a 40-year period (1977–2017) in the
context of the following general topics: palaeo-environments based on studies of terrestrial …

This thesis explores the stable isotope ecology of 12 species of co-existing wild herbivores
(11 mammals and one reptile)(62 individuals) from Mmabolela, a game farm on the northern …

Samantha Aird investigated the dynamics in the use of molluscs by the Woppaburra People
over a 5000-year period. High-resolution datasets and Woppaburra traditional ecological …