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CURRICULUM VITAE (updated 5 July, 2010) Name: MORRIS, Alan
Gregory Address: Department of Human Biology, University of Cape
Town, Observatory, Cape. SOUTH AFRICA 7925 Telephone: (+27)
(0)21-406-6282 (office) (+27) (0)21-791-0500 (home) FAX: (+27)
(0)21-448-7226 Electronic-Mail: [email protected] /
[email protected] Date of Birth: 22 October 1949 Nationality:
dual citizenship: Canadian / South African Marital Status: Married
Number of Children: One POST-SECONDARY ACADEMIC RECORD: Year
University Degree 1969 – 1973 Waterloo Lutheran University B.A.
(Biology) 1973 1973 – 1974 McMaster University Honours
equiv.(Anthropology) 1974 1975 – 1979 Witwatersrand University
(full time) 1980 – 1984 Witwatersrand University (part time) PhD.
(Anatomy) 1984 RELATED EMPLOYMENT: Date Position June – September
1968 Park Naturalist, Presqu’ile Provincial Park, Ontario Sept –
December 1968 Part-time Technician, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
June – September 1969 Park Naturalist, Lake Superior Provincial
Park, Ontario Sept 1970 – April 1971 Demonstrator, Dept. of
Geography, Waterloo Lutheran University Sept 1971 – April 1972
Demonstrator, Dept. of Geography, Waterloo Lutheran University Sept
1972 – April 1973 Demonstrator, Dept. of Biology, Waterloo Lutheran
University June – September 1974 Archaeologist, Ministry of Natural
Resources, Fort Frances, Ontario Sept – October 1974 Archaeologist,
Ministry of Natural Resources, Wasaga Beach, Ontario February – Nov
1976 Demonstrator, Dept. Anatomy, University of the Witwatersrand
February – Nov 1977 Demonstrator, Dept. Anatomy, University of the
Witwatersrand February – Nov 1978 Demonstrator, Dept. Anatomy,
University of the Witwatersrand February – April 1979 Demonstrator,
Dept. Anatomy, University of the Witwatersrand July 1979 – Dec 1980
Lecturer, Dept. of Archaeology, University of Cape Town Jan 1981 –
August 1985 Lecturer, Dept. of Anatomy, University of Cape Town
Sept 1985 – June 1990 Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Anatomy, University
of Cape Town July 1990 – Dec 2007 Associate Professor, Dept. of
Anatomy, University of Cape Town June 2000 to 2008 Honourary
Curator of Physical Anthropology, Iziko Museums, Cape Town Jan 2008
- present Professor, Dept. of Human Biology, University of Cape
Town
mailto:Alan.Morris@uct�
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ADVISOR IN FORENSIC OSTEOLOGY 1984 - present: Advisor to the
Department of Forensic Medicine at the Universities of Cape Town
and Stellenbosch in cases where only osteological remains are
present and identification of the individual is uncertain. Expert
witness in court cases: Expertise required for the estimation of
osteological age, and the identification of cremated human remains.
State v.s. Kok 10 April 1987 (age estimate) State v.s. Klaas 10
June 1987 (age estimate) State v.s. Johnson 27 May 1992 (cremated
remains) State v.s. Sauls 27 May 1996 (skeletal analysis) State
v.s. Botes 13 March 2009 (skeletal analysis) COURSES TAUGHT: 1.
Department of Human Biology, University of Cape Town MBChB 1 Human
Life Cycle Convenor of Basic Health Science Programme 2002 - 2003
MBChB 1 Human Life Cycle Group facilitator, lecturer, practical
tutor 2002 - 2003 MBChB 2 Lecturer – Darwinian Medicine, Race 2005
- present MBI 100W Human Biology Convenor, Lecturer, Tutor (old
MBChB curriculum) 1982 - 2001 ANT 204W Anatomical Science
Convenor & Lecturer: Human and comparative anatomy
1984 - 1990
ANT 301/2W Biological Anthropology & Applied Anat
Convenor & Lecturer: Human evolution, osteological and
anthropometrical variation.
1982 - 2001
HUB 3010F Applied Anatomy Convenor & Lecturer: principles of
anatomy, research methods
2005 - 2007
HUB 3011S Biol.Anthropology Convenor & Lecturer:
primatology, human variation 2005 - 2007 HUB 2019/3006 Human Biol.
Lecturer – evolutionary anatomy 2007 - present BSc(Med) Honours
Modules: skeletal biology, forensic anthropology,
comparative anatomy, history of anatomy & anthropology 1999
- present
BSc(Med) Honours Convenor: Scientific Communication Programme
2003 - 2009 2. Other Departments at University of Cape Town
Education PRIMARY EDUCATION IV What do we mean by 'race'? 1985 -
1988 Sociology Lecture Series: Meaning of Race/Origins of Race 1986
- 1988 Political Science Population admixture and South African
race policy. 1985 Extra Mural Studies Public Lecture Series: the
search for Man’s origins 1981 Extra Mural Studies Public Lecture
Series: the concept of race in natural science 1984 Extra Mural
Studies Public Lecture Series: fossil man update 1986 Extra Mural
Studies Public Lecture: human evolutionary transformation 1989
Extra Mural Studies Public Lecture: the primate world – colour
& shapes 1991 Extra Mural Studies Public Lecture Series: the
primates, our nearest neighbours 1993 Extra Mural Studies Public
Lecture: things evolving 1998 Extra Mural Studies Public Lecture:
human roots 2000 Extra Mural Studies Public Lecture: the Hofmeyr
skull 2008 Extra Mural Studies Public Lecture: A Canadian Horseman
in the S.A.War 2009 Archaeology AGE 202S, human evolution 1998 -
2000
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Archaeology AGE 320W, peoples of the Early Iron Age 2000 -
present Archaeology AGE 4000W, skeletal biology 1995 - present
Multi-media Education Group
Images of Africa: internet supported postgraduate course. Module
2: Modern Biological Concept of Race/Clines.
1999 - 2000
3. Outside of the University of Cape Town Lectures by
Invitation: Cape Technicon Univ. Bophuthatswana Univ. Stellenbosch
Univ. Pretoria
MUSEOLOGY III Physical anthropology HISTORY IV The background to
national socialist race theory ARCHAEOLOGY Skeletal remains and the
concept of race ARCHAEOLOGY Osteobiography:
1985 1986 1988 1990
University of Stellenbosch
FORENSIC ODONTOLOGY: Identification of skeletal variation in
forensics.
1999, 2001, 2003
Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
Department of Anthropology ANTHROPOLOGY 209 : the social
behaviour of primates
June – Aug 1986
University of Calgary, Canada
Department of Archaeology ARCHAEOLOGY 603.33 : the origins of
modern humans
Sept – Dec 1991
Northern Illinois University, U.S.A
Department of Anthropology ANTHROPOLOGY 240 : intro to physical
anthropology
Sept – Dec 1996
Institute for Shipboard Education: Semester at Sea. Pittsburgh
University
SPRING 2001 voyage: Division of Anthropology. Anthro 0538 The
Archaeologist Looks at Death Anthro 0689 Introduction to Physical
Anthropology Anthro 1778 Peoples of Africa
Jan – April 2001
Institute for Shipboard Education Semester at Sea. Pittsburgh
University
SPRING 2006 voyage: Division of Anthropology. Anthro 0538 The
Archaeologist Looks at Death Anthro 0689 Introduction to Physical
Anthropology Anthro 1603 Human Evolution
Jan – April 2006
Institute for Shipboard Education Semester at Sea. Pittsburgh
University
SHORE PROGRAMME IN CAPE TOWN Fossil hominids in Africa, The
peopling of Cape Town
1997 - 1998
Institute for Shipboard Education Semester at Sea. Pittsburgh
University
SHORE PROGRAMME IN CAPE TOWN Race classification in South
Africa
1999 - 2005
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE: a) Education Convenor and
Co-ordinator of HUMAN BIOLOGY programme 1982 to 2001 Convenor of
ANATOMICAL SCIENCE 1983 to 1990
1994 to 1995 2004 to 2007
HONOURS co-ordinator in Anatomy 1986 to 2009 Undergraduate
Medical Education Committee (UMEC) Vice Chair: Primary Care
Sub-Committee Member: Pre-clinical years Sub-Committee Member:
Curriculum Development Sub-Committee
1989 – 1998
Medical Academic Development Programme Medical Education for
South African Blacks (Committee Member)
1990 – 1998
Medical Curriculum Review Working Group 1998 – 2003
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Convenor of Basic Health Science MBChB 1: Semester 1 2002 – 2003
External Reviewer for Dept of Medical Biosciences programme review,
University of Western Cape.
2005
Convenor of Internal Review of Science courses in Anatomy &
Physiology, Department of Human Biology, UCT.
2006
Faculty Convenor: Honours for Basic Medical Sciences
(Departments of Clinical Laboratory Medicine and Human
Biology),
2008 to present
Faculty Convenor: Special Studies Modules for MBChB Semester 4
UCT local representative for the Beit Trust Chairman: Beit Trust
Subsistence Support Fund Committee (UK based funding body for
students from Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi)
2007 to present 1999 to present
Acting Head: Department of Human Biology One of several senior
staff who is routinely asked fill in for the HOD.
1999 to present
External Examiner: Department of Anatomical Sciences,
Witwatersrand University 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009
b) Research South African Association of Archaeologists
Subcommittee on the Proper Treatment of Human Skeletal Remains.
1992 to 2004
Editorial Board: South African Field Archaeology 1994 to 2006
Member: Archaeology and Palaeontology Permit Committee, South
African Heritage Resources Agency (SAHRA)
1999 to present
Member: Western Cape Sarah Baartman forum 2002 Exco Member:
Standards Generating Body for Archaeology, South African
Qualifications Authority (SAQA)
2003 – 2005
Member: Iziko Museums Advisory Committee on Human Remains 2004
to present Associate Editor: South African Journal of Science 2008
to present Member of Council of Van Riebeeck Society for
publication of Southern African historical documents
2000 to present
REFEREE FOR SCHOLARLY JOURNALS 1. South African Archaeological
Bulletin. Papers by Humphreys 1982, Winkler 1988, Patrick 1989,
Smith et al 1992, Wilson & Lundy 1992, Wynne et al 1996, Steyn
et al 1998, Strkalj 1998, Jerardino et al 1999, Sealy et al 2000,
Pistorius et al 2001,Mosothwane & Steyn 2004, L’Abbe et al
2005, Pilansberg paper 2007, Sandile paper 2007, Juvenile mortality
paper 2008, Nubian craniometry 2009, Gladstone cemetery Kimberley
2010. 2. Abstracts of the Anatomical Society of Southern Africa.
Published in the South African Journal of Science 1987 to 1991 and
in South African Medical Journal from 1992 -2004; Clinical Anatomy
2005 to present. 3. South African Journal of Science. Papers by
Steyn et al 1992, Henneberg & Mathers 1993, Huysamen 1993,
Pearson & Grine 1995, Pfeiffer et al 1998, Thackeray et al
2000, Pistorius et al 2000, Sithaldeen & Ackermann 2005,
Franklin et al 2006, Steyn et al 2006, Binneman 2006, Stynder et al
2007 (Associate Editor from November 2008). 4. Current
Anthropology. Papers by Calderaro 1989, Crellin 1990, Henneberg
& Steyn 1992, Lieberman 2000, McDermott 2001. 5. Transactions
of the Royal Society of South Africa. Papers by Keiser 1989, 1991,
Henneberg 1991, McKee 1992
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6. South African Field Archaeology. Papers by Steyn &
Broekhuizen 1992, Ross & Henneberg 1994, Abrahams & Fourshe
1995, Steyn et al 1997, Neinaber et al 1998. 7. Palaeotologica
Africana. Papers by Thackeray & Keiser 1992, Ferguson 1997,
Zipfel & Kidd 2007. 8. American Journal of Physical
Anthropology. Papers by Irish 1996, Steyn et al 1997, Bennedetti et
al 1998, Rothschild et al 1999, Frayer et al 1999, Mercader et al
2000, Isidro et al 2000. 9. Journal of Human Evolution. Paper by
Pinhasi 1998. 10. South African Journal of Cultural History. Paper
by Nienaber & Steyn 1998. 11. Ambulatory Child Health, Paper by
Zamir 1999. 12. Annals of the Transvaal Museum. Paper by Strkalj
1999. 13. Homo, Papers by Steyn et al 2001, Steyn et al 2006,
Wescott & Srikanta 2007, Lestrel et al 2008 14. World
Archaeology. Papers by Steyn 2002, Peckmann 2002, L’Abbe et al
2002. 15. American Journal of Human Biology. Paper by Keita 2004.
16. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. Paper by Cunha et al
2006, v.d.Merwe et al 2007, Varas & Thompson 2007. 17.
International Journal of Transitional Justice. Paper Cambodian
justice 2008 18. Journal of Archaeological Science. Paper by
Stynder 2008 19. Clinical Anatomy. Paper by Kirau et al 2009. 20.
South African Medical Journal. Paper by Hassoulas 2010. REPORTS ON
SKELETONS FOR PRIVATE CONTRACTS / HERITAGE RESOURCE AGENCY /
MONUMENTS COUNCIL 1. Morris, AG (Dec 1998) Report on Identity of an
Historic Burial from Schoozgezicht in Stellenbosch District. 2.
Morris, AG et al (Nov 2000) Report On The Excavation Of Human
Remains On The Polyoaks Site, Diep River, Cape Town. 3. Morris, AG
& Powrie, C. (Dec 2001) Human Skeletal Remains from Site of the
Wreck of the Birkenhead. 4. Morris, AG (Jan 2003) Report to the
National Monuments Council on the Exposure of Human Remains at the
Groote Kerk Buildings, Cape Town. 5. Morris, A.G. (March 2005)
Report on identification of human bone from excavations at
Chiappini Street, Prestwich Street and Buitengracht Street on
behalf of contract Archaeologist, Ms. M.Patrick. 6. Morris, A.G.
(March 2006) Human remains at the ‘Hawker’s Palace’, Port Louis,
Mauritius. Report for Historical Society of Mauritius, and Natural
History Museum, Port Louis. PUBLICATIONS: Theses, Monographs, Books
1. Morris, AG (1984) An Osteological Analysis of the Protohistoric
Populations of the Northern Cape and Western Orange Free State,
South Africa. PhD Thesis. University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg. 2. Thackeray, A.I., Deacon, J., Hall, S., Humphreys,
A.J.B. & Morris, A.G. (1987) The Early History of Southern
Africa to A.D.1500. Cape Town: South African Archaeological
Society.
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3. Morris, AG (1992) The Skeletons of Contact: Protohistoric
burials from the lower Orange River Valley. Johannesburg:
Witwatersrand University Press. 4. Morris, AG (1992) A Master
Catalogue: Holocene Human Skeletons from South Africa.
Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press. 5. Morris, AG (2000)
A Canadian Mounted Rifleman at War, 1899-1902. Cape Town: Van
Riebeeck Society . Second Series, No.31. Chapters in books. 1.
Morris, AG (1986) Khoi and San Craniology: A re-evaluation of the
osteological reference samples. In: Variation, Culture and
Evolution in African Populations: papers in honour of Dr. Hertha de
Villiers, eds. R Singer & JK Lundy. Pp.1-12. Johannesburg:
Witwatersrand University Press. 2. Morris, AG (1987) Biological
aspects of the burials. In: Nelson Bay Cave, Cape Province, South
Africa: the Holocene Levels. Pp. 196-209. RR Inskeep, BAR
International Series 357. 3. Morris, AG (1992) Biological
Relationships between Upper Pleistocene and Holocene Populations in
Southern Africa. In: Continuity or Replacement: Controversies in
Homo sapiens evolution. Eds. G Brauer & FH Smith, pp.131-143.
Rotterdam: AA Balkema. 4. Morris, AG (1992) Guide to Holocene Human
Skeletons from the Saldanha and Elands Bay Regions of the Western
Cape Province: with notes on certain specimens. In: Guide to
Archaeological Sites in the South-western Cape. Eds. AB Smith &
B Mutti, pp.55-59. Cape Town: South African Association of
Archaeologists Conference, July 5-9 1992. 5. Lee-Thorp, JA, Sealy,
JC, & Morris, AG (1993) Isotopic evidence for diets of
prehistoric farmers in South Africa. In: Prehistoric Human Bone:
Archaeology at the molecular level. Ed. JB Lambert & G Grupe,
pp.99-120. Berlin:Springer-Verlag. 6. Morris, AG (1995) The
Einiqua: an analysis of the Kakamas skeletons. In: Einiqualand:
Studies of the Orange River Frontier. Ed. A.B. Smith. P.110-164.
Cape Town: University of Cape Town Press. 7. Morris, AG (1996)
Trophy Skulls, Museums and the San. MISCAST: negotiating the
presence of the Bushmen. P.Skotnes (editor). Pp. 67-79. South
African National Gallery and University of Cape Town Press. 8.
Morris, AG & Tobias, PV (1997) South Africa. In: Spencer, F.
(editor) The Encyclopaedia of the History of Physical Anthropology.
Pp. 968-976. New York: Garland Publishing. 9. Morris, AG (1999)
Phillip Valentine Tobias. In: They shaped our century – 100 most
influential people of South Africa during the 20th century. Pp.
355-358. Cape Town: Human & Rousseau.
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10. Morris, AG (2005) Measure by Measure: The History of Race
and Typology in South African Physical Anthropology. In: Štrkalj,
G., Pather, N., & Kramer, B. (editors) Voyages in Science:
Essays by South African Anatomists in Honour of Phillip V. Tobias’
80th Birthday. Ppp.121-140. Pretoria: Content Solutions. 11.
Morris, AG (2007) Documentation, History and the source of
skeletons in collections In: Cassman, V. (editor) Human Remains: A
guide for museums and academic institutions. Chapter 10,
pp.151-161. Berkeley, California: Altamira Press 12. Friedling, LJ,
Morris, AG (2007) Report on the human skeletal remains found at
Hawkers’ Palace, Port Louis, Mauritius. In: la Hausse de
Lalouvière, P. (editor) Les Bâtisseurs de l’Ile Maurice: Pierres et
Patrimonoine de Port-Louis. Chapter 5, pp.127-150. Tamarin, Ile
Maurice: Heritage. 13. Morris, AG (2008) De Tuin, a 19th century
mission station in the northern Cape. In: Swanepoel, N.,
Esterhuysen, A. and Bonner, P. (eds) Five Hundred Years
Rediscovered: Southern African Precedents and Prospects.
pp:103-118. Johannesburg: Wits University Press. 14. Morris, AG
(2008) The Cairns of Rehoboth. In: Limpricht, C. & Beisele, M.
(eds) Heritage and Cultures in Modern Namibia: In-depth Views of
the Country. pp:155-169. Windhoek: TUCSIN. 15. Morris, AG (2009)
Archaeological and Palaeoanthropological highlights in South
African Science. In: The State of Science in South Africa Chapter
9: Archaeology and Palaeoanthropology, pp.241-260. Pretoria:
Academy of Science of South Africa. 16. Morris, AG & Steyn, M.
(in press) Palaeopathological studies in South Africa: a history.
In: Buiskstra, J. & Roberts, C. (eds) A History of
Palaeopathology. Oxford University Press. 17. Morris, AG (in press)
Racial Identification of single skulls in forensic cases: when myth
becomes reality. In: Strkalj, G. (ed). Teaching Human Variation:
Trends. Issues and Challenges. Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science
Publishing. Journal Articles 1. Morris, AG (1975) Indian deer
hunting methods as reflected by Odocoileus virginiana mandible
remains in Neutral village middens. Journal of Anthropology at
McMaster 1(1):19-30. 2. Morris, AG (1981) Copper discolouration of
bone and the incidence of copper artefacts with human burials in
South Africa. South African archaeological Bulletin 36:36-42. 3.
Morris, AG & Keen, EN (1982) Lawrence Herbert Wells and the
history of anatomical illustration. South African Medical Journal
61(2):40-43.
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4. Morris, AG & Parkington, JE (1982) Prehistoric Homicide:
A case of violent death on the Cape South Coast, South Africa.
South African Journal of Science 78:167-169. 5. Morris, AG (1983)
Human skeletal remains from the Froggy Pond shell midden, Simon’s
Town. Simon’s Town Historical Society Bulletin XII(4):132. 6. Hall,
M & Morris, AG (1983) Race and Iron Age human skeletal remains
from southern Africa: an assessment. Social Dynamics 9(2):29-36. 7.
Morris, AG (1986) On the sexual intercourse drawings of Leonardo da
Vinci. South African Medical Journal 69(8):510-513. 8. Morris, AG
(1987) The Reflection of the Collector: San and Khoi skeletons in
museum collections. South African archaeological Bulletin
42(145):12-22. 9. Morris, AG, Thackeray, AI, Thackeray, JF (1987)
Late Holocene human skeletal remains from Snuifklip, near
Vleesbaai, Southern Cape. South African archaeological Bulletin
42(146):153-160. 10. Morris, AG (1987) Reverend Kling’s skeletons.
South African Journal of Ethnology 10(4):159-162. 11. Morris, AG
(1988) Archaeological evidence of “Pipe-smoker’s Wear”. Journal of
the Dental Association of South Africa. 43:265-269. 12. Morris, AG
& Rodgers, AL (1989) A probable case of prehistoric kidney
stone disease from the northern Cape Province, South Africa.
American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 79(4):521-527. 13.
Morris, AG (1989) Dental Mutilation in historic and prehistoric
South Africa. Quarterly Bulletin of the South African Library
43(3):132-134. 14. Owen, CP, Wilding, RJC, & Morris, AG (1991)
Changes in mandibular condyle morphology related to tooth wear in a
prehistoric human population. Archives of Oral Biology
36(11):799-804. 15. Sealy, JC, Patrick, MK, Morris, AG, &
Alder, D (1992) Diet and dental caries among Later Stone Age
inhabitants of the Cape Province, South Africa. American Journal of
Physical Anthropology 88:123-134. 16. Bell, C, Morris, AG, &
Goldberg, A (1992) A Pathological elbow joint on a skeleton from
Pre-historic Zimbabwe and some speculations on its etiology.
Newsletter of the Anatomical Society of Southern Africa 26:15-16.
17. Jerardino, A, Yates, R, Morris, AG & Sealy, JC (1992) A
dated human burial from the Namaqualand coast: Observations on
culture, biology and diet. South African archaeological Bulletin
47(156):75-81. 18. Sealy, JC, Morris, AG, Armstrong, R. Markell, A,
and Schrire, C. (1993) An Historic Skeleton from the Slave Lodge at
Vergelegen. Historical Archaeology in the Western Cape, South
African Archaeological Society, Goodwin Series. 7:84-91.
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19. Morris, AG (1993) Human remains from the Early Iron Age
sites of Nanda and KwaGandaganda, Mngeni Valley, Natal, South
Africa. Natal Museum Journal of Humanities 5:83-98. 20. Morris, AG
(1993) Mtemankhokwe: Human Skeletal Remains from a Late Iron Age
cemetery in the Mangochi District of Southern Malawi. Southern
African Field Archaeology 2(2):74-84. 21. Morris, AG (1994) Human
skeletal remains from Wosi: an Early Iron Age site in the Thukela
Basin, Natal. Natal Museum Journal of Humanities 6:97-104. 22.
Morris, AG, Louw, GH, van Wyk, E & Cooper, C (1995) A brief
report on the rescue excavation of a human skeleton from
Nooitgedacht, Northern Cape Province, South Africa. Southern
African Field Archaeology 4(2):120-123 23. Sillen, A & Morris,
AG (1996) Diagenesis of bone from Border Cave: implications for the
age of the Border Cave hominids. Journal of Human Evolution 31(6):
499-506 24. Morris, AG (1997) The Griqua and the Khoikhoi: biology,
ethnicity and the construction of identity. Kronos No.24
pp.106-118. 25. Morris, AG (1998) Dental mutilation in southern
African history and prehistory with special reference to the “Cape
Flats Smile”. Journal of the Dental Association of South Africa.
53:179-183. 26. Churchill, S.E. & Morris, AG (1998) Muscle
marking morphology and labour intensity in prehistoric Khoisan
foragers. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 8: 390-411. 27.
Ledger, M., Holtzhausen, L-M, & Morris, AG (2000) Biomechanical
Beam Analysis of Long Bones from a late 18th century slave cemetery
in Cape Town, South Africa. American Journal of Physical
Anthropology 112:207-216. 28. Cox, G., Sealy, J., Schrire, C.,
& Morris, AG (2001) Stable carbon and nitrogen isotrophic
analyses of the underclass at the colonial Cape of Good Hope in the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. World Archaeology 33(1):73-97.
29. Nurok, M., Morris, AG., O’Connell, C, & Noakes, T./D.
(2001) Clustering of athletic ability in male Kalenjin scholars.
Sports Medicine (South Africa) March 14-17. 30. Morris, AG (2002)
The British Association meeting of 1905 and the rise of physical
anthropology in South Africa. South African Journal of Science 98:
336-340. 31. Morris, AG (2002) Isolation and the Origin of the
Khoisan: Late Pleistocene and early Holocene human evolution at the
southern end of Africa. Human Evolution 17 (3-4):105-114. 32.
Morris, AG (2003) The myth of the East African ‘Bushmen’. South
African Archaeological Bulletin 58(178):85-90.
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33. Friedling, LJ, Morris, AG (2005) The frequency of culturally
derived dental modification practices on the Cape Flats in the
Western Cape. Journal of the South African Dental Association
60(3):97-102. 34. Dlamini, N. & Morris, AG (2005) An
investigation of the frequency of squatting facets in Later Stone
Age Foragers from South Africa. International Journal of
Osteoarchaeology. 15:371-376. 35. Morris, AG (2005) Prehistory In
Blood And Bone: an essay on the reconstruction of the past from
genetics and morphology. Transactions of the Royal Society of South
Africa 60(2):111-114. 36. Morris, AG, Dlamini, N, Joseph, J,
Parker, A, Powrie, C, Ribot, I & Stynder, D. (2005) Later Stone
Age Burials from the Western Cape Province, South Africa. Part 1:
Voëlvlei. Southern African Field Archaeology 13 & 14:19-26.
2004/2005 37. Morris, AG, & Ribot, I. (2006) Morphometric
cranial identity of prehistoric Malawians in the light of
sub-Saharan African diversity. American Journal of Physical
Anthropology 130(1):10-25 38. Morris, AG. (2006) Later Stone Age
Burials from the Western Cape Province, South Africa. Part 2:
Leeufontein. Southern African Field Archaeology 15&1635-41
published in 2007. 39. Grine, FE, Bailey R.M, Harvati, K, Nathan
R.P, Morris, AG, Henderson, G.M, Ribot, I. Pike A.W.G, (2007) Late
Pleistocene Human Skull from Hofmeyr, South Africa, and Modern
Human Origins. Science Vol.315:226-229. 12 January 40. Friedling,
LJ, Morris, AG (2007) Pulling teeth for fashion: Dental
modification in modern day Cape Town, South Africa. Journal of the
South African Dental Association 62(1):106-113. 14. 41. Morris, AG
(2008) Searching for ‘real’ Hottentots: the Khoekhoe in the history
of South African physical anthropology. Southern African Humanities
20:221-233. 42. Stynder, DD., Wurz, S., Brock, F., Sealy, J.,
Morris, AG & Volman, T. (2009) A mid- Holocene AMS 14C date for
the presumed Late Pleistocene Peers Cave human skeleton from South
Africa. Journal of Human Evolution. 43. Morris, AG (2009) Zuckerman
versus Marais: a primatological collision. South African Journal of
Science. 105(5/6): 238-240 44. Morris, AG (2010) New Hominin
fossils from Malapa: The unveiling of Australopithecus sediba.
South African Journal of Science 106(3/4):9-10 45. Grine, FE, Gunz,
P. Betti-Nash, L, Neubauer, S &. Morris, AG (2010)
Reconstruction of the Late Pleistocene human skull from Hofmeyr,
South Africa. Journal of Human Evolution. 59;1-15.
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46. Ribot, I, Morris, AG, Sealy, JC & Maggs, T (submitted)
Population history and economic change in the last 2000 years in
KwaZulu-Natal, RSA. Southern African Humanities, Natal Museum.
Published Abstracts 1. Morris, AG (1976) The incidence of the
“cervical fossa of Allen” in the male Zulu femur (abstract).
Journal of Anatomy 121(2):432-433. 2. Owen, CP, Wilding, RJC,
Osborn, JW, Thomas, CJ, Morris, AG (1985) Tooth wear and condylar
morphology. Journal of Dental Research 64(4):777. (abstract no.51).
3. Morris, AG (1987) The use of long bone flattening as an
indicator of nutritional stress during growth. (abstract) South
African Journal of Science 83(6):377. 4. Morris, AG & Rodgers,
A (1987) A report on an archaeological human skeleton showing
calcification in the region of the lumbar spine. (abstract) South
African Journal of Science 83(6):383. 5. Morris, AG &
Churchill, S.E. (1997) Muscle marking rugosity and size as measures
of labor intensity in prehistoric Khoisan foragers. American
Journal of Physical Anthropology. Supplement 24: 174. 6. Morris, AG
& Grine, FE (1999) Hofmeyr and the origin of anatomically
modern South Africans. Journal of Human Evolution 36(4):A15 7.
Ribot, I. & Morris, AG (2003) Identity of prehistoric
South-Central Africans: attempting a craniometrical approach in the
light of sub-Saharan African diversity. Anatomical Society of
Southern Africa. Reviewed Abstracts of Annual Conferences. ASSA
2003, Golden Gate, Free State. www.anat.org.za 8. Manyaapelo, T
& Morris, AG (2006) An odontological analysis of 18th and 19th
century burial sites from in and around Cape Town. (abstract)
Clinical Anatomy 19(8):685 Book Reviews 1. Morris, AG (1984) Review
of “Man, the tottering biped”. South African archaeological
Bulletin 39(139):78. 2. Morris, AG (1985) Review of “The Origins of
Mankind”. South African archaeological Bulletin 40(142):119. 3.
Morris, AG (1987) Review of “The Wadi Kubbaniya Skeleton: A late
paleolithic burial from southern Egypt”. South African
archaeological Bulletin 42(146):184. 4. Morris, AG (1988) Review of
“Ancestors: The Hard Evidence”. South African archaeological
Bulletin 43(148):128-129
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5. Morris, AG (1988) Discussing Race in a Racist Society.
Anthropology Today 4(1):3-5. 6. Morris, AG (1991) Review of “From
Apes to Angels: Essays in Honor of Phillip V. Tobias”. South
African Medical Journal 80:65. 7. Morris, AG (1992) Review of
“Man’s Place in Evolution”. South African archaeological Bulletin
47(156):135 8. Morris, AG (1992) Review of “Prehistoric Cannibalism
at Mancos 5MTUMR-2346”. South African archaeological Bulletin
47(156):139-140. 9, Morris, AG (1993) In defence of Homo habilis.
Review of “Olduvai Gorge Vol 4: The Skulls, Endocasts and Teeth of
Homo habilis”. South African Journal of Science 89:102-103. 10.
Morris, AG (2002) Vivid walk through time with SA ancestors of
humankind. Review of “The Official Field Guide to the Cradle of
Humankind”. Cape Times, 18 October. 11. Morris, AG (2003) Seeing
Raymond Dart through rose-tinted spectacles: A review of “Dart:
Scientist and Man of Grit”. South African Journal of Science
99:xvi. 12. Morris, AG (2005) Review of “The Bone Woman”. Litnet 24
January 2005 http://www.litnet.co.za/seminarroom/bone_woman.asp 13.
Morris, AG (2008) Review of “The Hobbit Trap”. South African
archaeological Bulletin 63(188): 178-179 14. Morris, AG (2009)
Interviewing a master human biologist. Review of “Tobias in
Conversation: genes, fossils and anthropologist. South African
Journal of Science. 105(1/2):22-23. 15. Morris, AG (2009) Review of
“A Search for Origins: Science, History and South Africa’s ‘Cradle
of Humankind’”. South African archaeological Bulletin 64(189):95.
16. Morris, AG (in press) Review of “Healer, Helpers and Hospitals:
a history of military medicine in the Anglo-Boer War”. African
Historical Review. 17. Morris, AG (in press) Review of “Andreas
Vesalius: the Making, the Madman, and the Myth”. South African
Medical Journal.
Popular Articles and Non-technical Publications 1. Morris, AG
(1974) Faunal analysis of sites DeIs-3 and DeIs-4. Document 172
ARY-74, Historical Planning and Research Branch, Ministry of
Natural Resources, Queen’s Park, Ontario. 2. Morris, AG & Epp,
H (1976) A note on two potential early Hominid sites in the
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Serengeti National Park (Tanzania). Proceedings S2A3 Congress
Nelspruit 1976 3:79-86. 3. Morris, AG (1981) Some thoughts on
double burials. South African Archaeological Society Newsletter
4(1):9. 4. Morris, AG (1982) Humanising Doctors: Creating social
awareness through education – Human Biology at UCT. Impulse:
Science Student’s Magazine 2:7-8. 5. Morris, AG & Koeslag, J.
(1984) Human Biology at the University of Cape Town South African
Association for Medical Education Newsletter 2(3):8-9. 6. Morris,
AG (1984) Old Bones and Politics. The Digging Stick 1(2):3. 7.
Morris, AG (1985) Faces from the Past. The Digging Stick 2(1):5-6.
8. Morris, AG (1985) The Taung Diamond Jubilee International
Symposium. The Digging Stick 2(2):4-5. 9. Siers, R, & Morris,
AG (1987) Four Million Years of Hominid Evolution. Cape Town:Stream
Educational Movement. 10. Morris, AG (1988) Comment on “The origin
and antiquity of syphilis: Paleopathological diagnosis and
interpretation” by BJ Baker & G. Armelagos. Current
Anthropology Vol.28(5):723-724. 11. Morris, AG (1989) Makapansgat.
Sagittarius 4(2):10-13. 12. Morris, AG (1990) “Very Big and
Horrible to Look At”: The Chacma baboon in South African History.
Sagittarius 5(1):20-23. 13. Morris, AG (1990) Khoikhoi Origins. The
Phoenix: Magazine of the Albany Museum 3(3):8-13. 14. Morris, A.G.
(1990) Report on Conference Proceedings. African Protohistory:
Multidisciplinary Perspectives. Centre for African Studies
Newsletter No.11, pp.5-6. University of Cape Town. 15. Morris, AG
(1991) Tribute to Phillip Valentine Tobias. The Leech 60(1):10-11.
16. Morris, AG (1994) A report on the Southern African Association
of Archaeologists Biennial Conference: Pietermaritzburg,
KwaZulu/Natal. Nyame Akuma 42:21-24. 17. Morris, AG (1996) Addendum
to “Missing Heads: Public History in South Africa” by N Worden.
Itinerario Vol.20(3):125-132. 18. Morris, AG (1997) What ever
happened to Koos Sas? Montagu Mail 1:25. Sas becomes a trophy.
Montagu Mail 2:25. Koos Sas comes to rest. Montagu Mail 3:25. 19.
Morris, AG (2000) Comment on “Genes, Tribes and African History” by
Scott
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MacEachern. Current Anthropology Vol.41(3):376-77. 20. Morris,
AG (2000) Comment on “Skeletons in the cupboard: museums and the
incipient trade in human remains, 1907-1917” by Martin Legassick
and Ciraj Rassool, pp. 73-76. South African Museum & McGregor
Museum. 21. Morris, AG. (2003) Using Racial Terms in Anatomical
Research. Plexus: Newsletter of the International Federation of
Associations of Anatomists. Newsletter 2 – May 2003
http://www.ifaa.net/Plexus2.pdf 22. Morris, A.G. (2004) Impressions
of the Landscape: the feeling of field work. The Digging Stick
21(1):11-12. 23. Morris, AG. (2004) Anatomy and Archaeology: A
report on the World Archaeological Congress 5, Washington , DC. 21
to 26 June, 2003. . Plexus: Newsletter of the International
Federation of Associations of Anatomists. Newsletter 3 – April 2004
24. Morris, AG (2005) Dead White Men. In: Friedling, L.J. (ed) Yes,
Dead Men do tell tales! pp.7-20. Cape Town: David and Elaine Potter
Charitable Trust & SANPAD. 25. Morris, AG & Friedling, L.J.
(2005) Postscript: The politics of skeletons. In: Friedling, L.J.
(ed) Yes, Dead Men do tell tales! Pp.75-78. Cape Town: David and
Elaine Potter Charitable Trust & SANPAD. 26. Morris, AG (2007)
Hofmeyr skull. The Voyage of the Planet. March/April 2007 #3:34-38.
27. Morris, AG (2007) Human origins and the African connection.
Quest Magazine 3(2)18-19. 28. Morris, AG (2007) A KhoeSan survival
story. Quest Magazine 3(3):16-19. 29. Morris, AG (2008) The
politics of bones in South Africa. Cape Argus. Tuesday October 21.
Johannesburg Star, & Pretoria News. Thursday October 23. 30.
Morris, AG (2009) The Politics of Old Bones in 21st century South
Africa. The Digging Stick 26(1):5-9. 31. Morris, AG (2009) The
Skull of Koos Sass in historical context. Tricycle Theatre
Programme 14 July – 1 August 2009, pp.20-21. British Premiere of
Koos Sass: Last Bushman of Montagu, written & directed by David
Kramer. Tricycle Theatre, London. 32. Morris, AG (2009) Burning the
Straw Man: a response to Hall’s “New Knowledge and the University”.
Anthropology Southern Africa. 32(1&2):78-79 33. Morris, AG
(2010) Insight: Film revisits Apartheid’s Cruelty. Untold suffering
that’s come from skin colour. Cape Times. Friday, January 22, p.11.
CONFERENCE PAPERS/POSTERS
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a) Local South African Conferences 1. The incidence of the
“cervical fossa of Allen” in the male Zulu femur. Anatomical
Society of Southern Africa. Bloemfontein, March 1975. 2. A note on
two potential early Hominid sites in the Serengeti National Park
(Tanzania). South African Association for the Advancement of
Science. Nelspruit, August 1976. 3. Khoi and San: are there any
biological differences? South African Association of Archaeologists
Biennial Conference. Grahamstown, September 1985. 4. The use of
long bone flattening as an indicator of nutritional stress during
growth. Anatomical Society of Southern Africa. Johannesburg, April,
1987. 5. A report on an archaeological human skeleton showing
calcification in the region of the lumbar spine. Anatomical Society
of Southern Africa. Johannesburg, April, 1987. 6. Khoisan Origins.
South African Association of Archaeologists Biennial Conference.
Johannesburg, April 1988. 7. Panel Speaker: The Significance of
Early Anatomically Modern People in Southern Africa. South African
Association of Archaeologists Biennial Conference. Johannesburg,
April 1988. 8. A Master Catalogue of Holocene Human Skeletons from
South Africa. South African Association of Archaeologists Biennial
Conference. Kimberley, September 1990. 9. Prehistory in Blood and
Bone. South African Association of Archaeologists Biennial
Conference. Cape Town, 3 July 1992. 10. The Hofmeyr Skull. South
African Association of Archaeologists Biennial Conference.
Pietermaritzburg, 18 July 1994. 11. Invited Participant: National
Unity and the Politics of Diversity: the case of the Western Cape
Institute for Democracy in South Africa. Cape Town, 18-20 August
1995. 12. The Cape Flats Smile: Dental mutilation in South African
history and pre-history. Hillel-Shapiro Memorial Lecture South
African Society for Forensic Odonto-Stomatology. Cape Town 8
September, 1995. 13. Forensic Anthropology in an African Context.
Anatomical Society of Southern Africa. Mpumalanga, April, 1996. 14.
Cobern Street Symposium: History of the Cobern Street Site / Dental
Health and Dental Practices amongst the people of Cobern Street.
Anatomical Society of Southern Africa. Cape Town, April, 1997. 15.
Invited Participant: The Use of Racial Categories in Health
Research. Institute for Democracy in South Africa. Transformation
and Equity Program. Cape Town. 22 August, 1998 16. (with M.Bukenya
& G. Louw) Pre-sacral vertebral patterns and ribs in primate
posture and locomotion. Anatomical Society of Southern Africa. Sun
City April 1999. 17. (with D. Constant) The Cobern street cemetery:
reconstruction of biological origins. Anatomical Society of
Southern Africa. Tygerberg, April 2000. 18. The art and science of
illustrating extinct humans. Anatomical Society of Southern Africa.
Tygerberg, April 2000. 19. Human Roots: a century of discoveries
concerning human origins. Reconstructing Ancestors: the art and
science of bringing fossil humans to life in pictures. Standard
Bank National Arts Festival, Grahamstown. ( July 2000) 20.
Prehistory in Blood and Bone II. South African Association of
Archaeologists Biennial Conference. Cape Town, 9 July 2002. 21.
Tribute to Phillip Tobias. Royal Society of South Africa: Special
symposium in Honour of Phillip Tobias. Cape Town, 6 July 2002 22.
The peopling of southern Africa. Workshop on “Origins of humanity
and the diffusion of human populations in Africa”. Africa Human
Genome Initiative. Lanzerac Manor, Stellenbosch. 18 September 2002.
23. Playing the Race Card: the use of racial and ethnic categories
in anatomical research. Anatomical Society of Southern Africa.
Golden Gate, 7 April 2003. 24. Tales from the Grave: the analysis
of human skeletons from burials in the central interior of South
Africa. South African Association of Archaeologists Biennial
Conference. Kimberley 7 April 2004. 25. (with J. Friedling) The
Politics of Skeletons. Anatomical Society of Southern Africa. East
London, 21 April 2005. 26. (with T. Manyaapelo) An odontological
analysis of 18th and 19th century burial sites from in
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and around Cape Town. Anatomical Society of Southern Africa.
Golden Gate, 23 April 2006. 27. Searching for ‘real’ Hottentots:
the Khoekhoe in South African physical anthropology. Khoekhoe &
the origins of herding in southernmost Africa, Paarl. 13 November
2006 28. (with T. Manyaapelo) Aesthetic modification and habitual
markers on the dentition of 18th and 19th century Capetonians.
Anatomical Society of Southern Africa. Mount Grace, 24 April 2007.
29. De Tuin, a 19th century mission station in the northern Cape
500yr Research Group Conference, University of the Witwatersrand.
27 May 2007. 30. (with D. Halkett) Fragmentary evidence: the
analysis of the crushed human bone from the BP site, a secondary
mass burial of historic skeletons from the Waterfront in Cape Town,
South Africa. South African Association of Professional
Archaeologists Biennial Conference. Cape Town, 28 March 2008. 31.
So when did we stop climbing in trees? A.C. Boonzaier Annual
Lecture. South African Society for the Surgery of the Hand. 39th
annual conference. 31 August, 2008. b) International (including
those hosted in South Africa) 1. Evidence for changing lifestyles
in 18th and 19th century South Africa. Xith International Congress
of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences. Vancouver, August
1983. 2. Patterns of racial admixture in South Africa: osteological
evidence from the north-eastern Cape Province. Xith International
Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences. Vancouver,
August 1983. 3. Biological Relationships between Upper Pleistocene
and Holocene Populations in Southern Africa. XIIth International
Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences. Zagreb,
Yugoslavia 24-31 July 1988. 4. Culture contact and gene flow in
protohistoric South Africa. Invited Participant African
Protohistory: Multidisciplinary Perspectives. University of
Illinois, Urbana. 22-24 April 1989. 5. The Philosophical Roots of
the Study of Race in South Africa. Canadian Association of Physical
Anthropologists Annual Meeting, Hamilton, Ontario, 2 November 1991.
6. The Engima of Border Cave. Invited Participant The End of Eve?
Fossil Evidence from Africa, American Association for the
Advancement of Science, Boston, 12 February 1993. 7. Poster
Presentation: Identification of Soft-tissue Calcifications in
Archaeological Sites in South Africa and Namibia. Paleopathology
Association Meeting. Toronto, 14 April 1993. 8. Humans at the
Holocene boundary in southern Africa: the importance of Boskop and
Hofmeyr. Four Million Years of Hominid Evolution in Africa:
Congress in Honour of Mary Douglas Leakey. Arusha, Tanzania, 8-14
August 1993. 9. The Myth of the East African Bushmen. Khoisan
Studies: Multidisciplinary Perspectives. Munich, 11 July 1994. 10.
Relative Dating of the Border Cave Hominids using Bone mineral
crystallinity. 10th Congress of the Pan African Association for
Prehistory and Related Studies. Harare, Zimbabwe, 18-23 June 1995.
11. Ethnic Identity and the reburial issue in South Africa: The
cases of Saartje and Hintza. Midwest Bioarchaeology and Forensic
Anthropology Association. Kalamazoo, Michigan, 12 October, 1996.
12. The Politics of Reburial: The cases of Saartje and Hintza.
African Studies Association. San Francisco, California. 23-26
November, 1996. 13. The Griqua and the Khoikhoi: biology, ethnicity
and the construction of identity. Khoisan Identities and Cultural
Heritage Third International Conference on Khoisan Studies.
University of the Western Cape at the South African Museum, Cape
Town, 14 July, 1997. 14. Isolation and the Origin of the Khoisan:
Late Pleistocene and early Holocene Evolution at the Southern End
of Africa. Dual Congress. Sun City, 3 July 1998. 15. (with
D.Constant) The Cobern Street Cemetery: using cranial variation to
reconstruct the biological diversity of the common people of 18th
century Cape town. World Archaeological Congress 4, Cape Town, 11
January, 1999. 16. Hintsa’s Head: forensic science in the service
of traditional beliefs. World Archaeological Congress 4, Cape Town,
12 January, 1999. 17. (with F.E. Grine & D. Constant ) Hofmeyr
and the origin of anatomically modern South Africans.
Paleoanthropology Society, Columbus Ohio, April 1999
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18. When Peoples Meet: models of biological interactions between
aboriginal foragers and their neighbours during the Holocene. The
Human Genome in Africa Conference. Spier, Stellenbosch. 21 March
2003. 19. Three case studies of forager/agriculturalist interaction
during the advent of the Iron Age in southern Africa: a human
osteological perspective. World Archaeological Congress 5,
Washington, 21 June, 2003. 20. (with I. Ribot and F.E.Grine) A
Nearly Complete Human Cranium from the MSA / LSA transition in
Southern Africa. 11th Congress of the Pan African Association for
Prehistory and Related Studies. Gaborone Botswana, 3-8 July 2005.
21. Poster Presentation: (with L.J. Fiedling) Grave Tales –
lifestyles and health in 18th and 19th century Cape Town.
Paleopathology Association. Philadelphia, USA , 27-28 March, 2007.
22. (with T. Manyaapelo) An odontological analysis of 18th and 19th
century burial sites from in and around Cape Town. Paleopathology
Association. Philadelphia, USA , 27-28 March, 2007. 23. Closing the
Passion Gap. International Organisation for Forensic
Odontostomatology Conference, Cape Town, 23 November, 2007. 24.
Trauma and Violence in Later Stone Age South Africans. World
Archaeology Congress 6, Dublin 29 June -4 July, 2008. 25. Racial
Identification of single skulls in forensic cases: when myth
becomes reality. 17th conference of the International Federation of
Associations of Anatomists, Cape Town August 2009. 26.
Non-diagnostic osteological markers of disease and health in past
populations of South Africa. 17th conference of the International
Federation of Associations of Anatomists, Cape Town August 2009.
27. Wenner-Gren conference on ‘The Biological Anthropology Of
Modern Human Populations: World Histories, National Styles, And
International Networks’, Teresópolis, Brazil, March 2010. PUBLIC
TALKS AND DEPARTMENTAL SEMINAR PAPERS 1. The role of physical
anthropology in the study of African history. Centre for African
Studies, University of Cape Town. October, 1980. 2. Darwinism and
modern alternative theories of evolution. Human Genetics Medical
Seminar, University of Cape Town. May, 1982. 3. Disease on the
Frontier: the record of disease on the northern frontier of the
Cape Colony, 1750-1850. Northern Frontier Seminar, University of
Cape Town. August, 1982. 4. History and Archaeology of the Ontario
Iroquois Indians. Western Cape Branch, South African Archaeological
Society. May 1984. 5. Reportback on the TAUNG 60 Conference in
Johannesburg. Western Cape Branch, South African Archaeological
Society. April 1985. 6. Leonardo da Vinci: Mediaeval anatomist and
Rennaissance artist? UCT Medical History Society Cape Town,
September 1985. 7. Khoisan Origins: Recent human evolution in
southern Africa. School of Human Biology Seminar. University of
Guelph, Ontario, July 1986. 8. The Current Crisis in South Africa.
Public Seminar, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, July
1986. 9. The Rise of Anatomical Illustration: Leonardo da Vinci’s
Drawings. Departments of Anthropology, Family Medicine and Anatomy
Seminar. McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, July 1986. 10. The
Skeletons of Research. Department of Anatomy Seminar. University of
Cape Town. February, 1987. 11. How science has been used to justify
racism in South Africa: the view from physical anthropology.
Science for Democracy Seminar. Khanya College, Cape Town, 23 July,
1987. 12. Discussing race in a race-conscious society: Scientific
and lay perceptions of human variation in South Africa. Royal
Society of South Africa. Cape Town, 16 March, 1988. 13. Khoikhoi
origins: the biological perspective. Khoikhoi: the forgotten people
of the Cape. An archaeological odyssey of social interaction at the
Cape 1488 – 1988. South African Archaeological Society “teach-in”.
Cape Town, 24 September 1988.
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14. The Ancient People of Malawi: an investigation of Late Stone
Age human remains from south-central Africa. Centre for African
Studies, University of Cape Town. 28 March, 1989. 15. “Very Big and
Horrible to Look At”. The Chacma baboon in South African History.
Friends of the South African Museum, Cape Town, 20 September 1989.
Mountain Club of South Africa, Cape Town, 20 April 1990. 16. Graves
and history in the lower Orange River Valley of South Africa.
Department of Archaeology Seminar, University of Calgary, Calgary,
Alberta, 23 October, 1991. 17. A Master Catalogue of Holocene Human
Skeletons from South Africa. South African Association of
Archaeologists Biennial Conference. Kimberley, September 1990. 18.
The Philosophical Roots of the Study of Race in South Africa.
Department of Anthropology, University of Alberta, Edmonton,
Alberta, 29 November 1991; and Western Cape Branch, South African
Archaeological Society, Cape Town, 17 March 1992. 19. What’s in a
name? Classification, race and history in the South African
context. School of Human Biology Seminar. University of Guelph,
Ontario, 4 November, 1991. 20. The Issue of Race Re-classification
in South Africa. Anthropology Colloquium, University of Calgary,
Calgary, Alberta, 13 November, 1991. 21. Measure by Measure: Human
variation studies in South Africa. South African and Contemporary
History Seminar. Department of History and Institute for Historical
Research, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, 9 April, 1996
22. Anatomical Remains: the ethics of collection. UCT Winter
School. Miscast: the academy, the exhibition & the bushmen. 30
May, 1996. 23. The Origins of Human Populations in southernmost
Africa. Dept of Anthropology & Graduate Colloquium Committee,
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, 9 September, 1996.
24. Isolation and the Origin of the Khoisan: Biological
Anthropology & Anatomy Seminar, Duke University, Durham, North
Carolina, 5 November, 1996. 25. The Cape Flats Smile. Chardin
Anthropological Society, Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois, 7
November 1996. 26. The Politics of Reburial: Forensic anthropology
in post-Apartheid South Africa. Archaeology Program and Department
of Sociology and Anthropology, Wilfrid Laurier University,
Waterloo, Ontario, 11 November 1996 27. The Cobern Street Cemetery.
Center for Cultural Understanding & Change and Department of
Anthropology, Field Museum, Chicago, 5 December, 1996. 28.
Isolation and the Origin of the Khoisan. Department of Anthropology
Colloquium Series, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, 11
December, 1996 29. Health, sickness and old bones: palaeopathology
and archaeology at the Cape. South African Archaeological Society
& Friends of the Stellenbosch Museum, One Day Lecture Series.
Stellenbosch, May 1999. 30. The Old Physical Anthropology. Opening
of an art exhibition entitled “Unfinished Man: Science History and
Identity”. Association for Visual Arts. Cape Town, August 1999. 31.
Teaching in the new PBL system at UCT Medical School. CUES series
on Innovative Teaching. Faculty of Science, University of Cape
Town. 19 July, 2002. 32. Teeth, dental disease and diet. South
African Archaeological Society & Friends of the Stellenbosch
Museum, One Day Lecture Series. Stellenbosch, 24 August, 2003. 33.
The Biological Analysis of Early Historic Burials in Cape Town.
SANPAD seminar, Durban, 18 October 2004. 34. The Hofmeyr Skull and
the Late Pleistocene ancestry of the KhoiSan. Department of Human
Biology seminar. HUB North 28 October, 2004: HUB South 17 March,
2005. 35. 100 Days Before the Mast: My experiences teaching on
board the MV Explorer as part of the American Semester at Sea
Programme. Department of Human Biology seminar. 17 August, 2006 36.
The Hofmeyr Skull and the Late Pleistocene ancestry of the KhoiSan.
Institute for Immunology and Infectious Disease, UCT. 11 April,
2007. 37. The last of the loose threads: digging up the skeletons
of the TRC. Tygerberg Ethics Discussion Group, University of
Stellenbosch Medical School. 2 May, 2007. 38. The Hofmeyr Skull:
ancestor of us all. University of the 3rd Age. Muizenberg, Cape
Town. 7 June 2007. 39. Prehistory in Blood and Bone. University of
Stellenbosch, Department of Molecular and Cellular
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Biology Seminar. 11 February, 2008. 40. The Hofmeyr Skull and
the Late Pleistocene ancestry of the KhoiSan. Cape Natural History
Society 31 July, 2008., South African Archaeological Society 12
August, 2008, East London Museum, 3 December 2008. 41. Egyptology
and the study of ancient disease. Egyptian Society 26 August, 2008.
42. Palaeopathology: reading the signs of disease on the bones.
South African Archaeological Society, Transvaal Branch Annual
School, 25 October, 2008 43. Zuckerman vs. Marais: a primatological
collision. Invited Speaker: South African Medical Association,
Presidential Dinner. Vineyard Hotel, Cape Town. 6 June 2009. 44.
Primate Disagreements: the clash between Solly Zuckerman and Eugene
Marais. Department of Human Biology seminar. 29 April, 2010. 45. A
Canadian Horseman in the South African War. South African
Association of Canadian Studies, University of Cape Town., 6 May,
2010. MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES Anatomical Society of
Southern Africa 1975 to present South African Archaeological
Society 1979 to present Canadian Association of Physical
Anthropologists 1984 to present South African Association of
Professional Archaeologists 1984 to present Royal Society of South
Africa 1986 to present American Association of Physical
Anthropologists 1992 to present Member of Council of Van Riebeeck
Society 2000 to present FIELD EXPERIENCE June-Sept 1974
Archaeological survey, Manitou Mounds Project, Fort Frances,
Ontario, Canada. Sept-Oct 1974 Archaeological survey, Nottawasaga
River Project, Wasaga Beach, Ontario, Canada. September 1975
Examination of Fossil Specimens, National Museums of Kenya,
Nairobi,
Field Survey, Serengeti National Park, Tanzania November 1980
Orange River Archaeological Survey, Kakamas, Cape Province, South
Africa. July 1982 De Tuin Excavations, Kenhardt, Cape Province,
South Africa. First Field Season July 1984 Bushmanland Burial
Excavations, Augrabies Falls National Park, Cape Province,
South Africa. July 1989 Excavations at Rehoboth, Namibia. First
Field Season July 1990 Excavations at Rehoboth, Namibia. Second
Field Season October 1992 Field Survey for Fossil Sites, Hofmeyr,
Cape Province, South Africa. July 1993 Rescue excavation of burial
at Nooitgedacht, Barkley West District, Kimberley,
South Africa. May 1994 De Tuin Excavations, Kenhardt, Cape
Province, South Africa. Second Field Season Dec 1994 - Jan 1995
Cobern Street Cemetery, Cape Town. Rescue excavation.
April 1998 Rescue excavation of burial at Leeufontein,
Murraysburg District, Western Cape, South Africa.
August 1999 De Tuin Excavations, Kenhardt, Cape Province, South
Africa. Fourth Field Season March 2000 Polyoak Excavation, Diep
River, Cape Town. Rescue excavation. August 2003 Rescue excavation
of double burial in Simon’s Town Naval base,Western Cape,
South Africa.
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July 2005 TRC excavations in Pretoria. Excavation and analysis
of human remains from apartheid years to be returned to
relatives
July 2005 Search for the remains of Chief Fadana on Robben
Island. Trial excavations to search for 19th century grave site.
Robben Island Museum.
June 2006 TRC excavations in Mafeking. Excavation and analysis
of human remains from apartheid years to be returned to
relatives.
SUPERVISION OF POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS 1. Honours
Rawlinson, RJC BA Honours 1982 The stable carbon isotope and
osteological analysis of a prehistoric human sample from the
southwestern Cape, South Africa.
Alder, D BSc(Med) Honours
1988 An analysis of the human skeletal remains from Faraoskop,
western Cape, South Africa.
Mathers, K BA Honours
1990 Exhibits, Evolution and Education: a survey of museum
visitors.
Bell, C BA Honours
1991 Functional Anatomy of the Human Thumb Joint.
Reynard, J BSc(Med) Honours
1992 A Palaeopathological Analysis of a 19th Century Cape Town
Population.
O’Shaughnessy, K
BSc(Med) Honours
1993 An electromyographic and biostereometric analysis of the
forearm musculature in rock climbers using four different handhold
grip techniques.
Nkojoana, MT BSc(Med) Honours
1997 Anthropometric Assessment of Liveborn and Stillborn
Neotates.
Ledger, M. BSc(Med) Honours
1997 The People from the Cobern Street Graves: a biomechanical
analysis of the long bones.
Dlamini, N. BSc(Med) Honours
2002 An analysis of the proximal tibia flattening in relation to
the anatomical signs of squatting in Khoisan hunter-gatherers.
Manyaapelo, T BSc(Med) Honours
2004 Anterior tooth wear in South African prehistoric
populations.
Joshua, L. BSc(Med) Honours
2005 Synovial and non-synovial joint arthritis in the 18th
century Cobern Street sample of archaeological skeletons.
Salie, T. BSc(Med) Honours
2005 The mystery of the Freemason Skeletons.
Machers, S. BSc(Med) Honours
2005 Bony and soft-tissue landmarks for the reconstruction of
the nose: a forensic application.
Daya, N. BSc(Med) Honours
2006 An investigation of metric and non-metric dental traits in
a Later Stone Age population from Southern Africa.
Dembetembe, K. BSc(Med) Honours
2007 Bone preservation and burial pattern: an analysis of the
18th and 19th century burial remains from Cobern Street.
Roff, B. BSc(Med) Honours
2008 Greulich and Pyle (1959) skeletal age. Estimation using
hand-wrist radiographs- does the method apply to South African
children? A Pilot Study
Van der Watt, B. BSc(Med) Honours
2008 A demography and preservation study of later stone age
human skeletons from the west coast of the Western Cape Province,
South Africa
Clarke, C. BSc(Med) Honours
2009 The presence of the Os daubentonia in the wrist joint of
humans.
Maass, P. BSc(Med) Honours
current Cortical preservation of cadaver bone: a macroscopic,
microscopic and biochemical study
Shargay, H. BSc(Med) current Radiographic survey of lumbar
vertebral variations in native
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Honours southern Africa 2. Masters Patrick, MK MA 1989 An
archaeological and anthropological study of the human
skeletal remains from the Oakhurst Rock Shelter, George, Cape
Province, South Africa.
Kovacs, J MSc 1993 The post-cranial remains of Papio ursinus and
fossil baboons from South African Australopithecine sites.
Bell, C MSc 1994 Clinically-defined Osteoarthritis, sex and age:
Their influence on the geometry, morphology and biomechanics of the
upper cervical spine.
Botha, W MSc 1997 An Anthropometric Survey of Female Nurses
working in the Western Cape: Implications for Equipment and
Workspace Design.
Apollonio, H MA 1998 Identifying the Dead: 18th Century Mortuary
Practices at Cobern Street, Cape Town
Sanders, V MSc 2002 An Assessment of Muscle Insertion Sites and
Biomechanical Beam Analysis in Living Subjects.
Friedling, L.J. MSc 2003 Dental Modification Practices on the
Cape Flats in the Western Cape.
Dlamini, N MSc 2006 An assessment of the health status by
non-specific stress indicators of the early farming populations
from central and southern Africa.
Manyaapelo, T MSc 2008 An odontological analysis of 18th and
19th century burials from in and around Cape Town.
Rossouw, L MSc 2010 A Forensic Anthropological Investigation of
Skeletal Remains recovered from a 1000 year old archaeological site
in North-western Namibia.
Dembetembe, K. MSc current Age Estimation using Epiphyseal
Closure at the wrist joint: an investigation of individuals of
African origin, age 14 to 22.
Roff, B. MSc current South African Standards for Age Estimation
of Children Between 0 and 13 Years Using Radiographs of the Hand
and Wrist
Meyer, A. MSc (jointly with U Pretoria)
current An assessment of metabolic bone disease in the skeletal
remains of Chinese indentured mine labourers from the
Witwatersrand
3. Doctoral Steyn, M PhD 1994 An Assessment of the Health Status
and Physical
Characteristics of the Prehistoric Population from
Mapungubwe.
Bukenya, EEM PhD 2000 The Vertebral Column in Humans and
Selected non-Human Primates, and the Functional Structure of its
Transitional Elements.
Peckmann, T PhD 2002 Dialogues with the Dead: an osteological
analysis of the palaeodemography and life history of the 19th
century northern frontier in South Africa.
Friedling, L.J. PhD 2007 Grave Tales: an osteological assessment
of health and lifestyle from 18th and 19th century burial sites
around Cape Town.
Phillips, V.M PhD 2008 The dental and skeletal maturation of
South African children and the relation to chronological age.
Dlamini, N PhD current Residency and Migration: a
characterisation study of the
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biological and cultural diversity of the early inhabitants of
the Upemba Depression, Democratic Republic of Congo
Chibba, K PhD current Sequential changes in epiphyseal union in
South African children between the ages thirteen up to twenty one
years using fully body LODOX scans.
4. External Examiner for Theses Student Degree Year Title
University Van Dyk, N. PhD 1998 The Melanesians: an osteological
study of
their biological relationships within the Pacific.
Australian National University
Oettle, A.C. MSc 1998 Age Estimation from Sternal Ends of Ribs
by Phase Analysis in South African Blacks.
University of Pretoria
Dayal, MR. MSc (Med)
2003 Stature Estimates from Long Bones of South African Whites
Using Regression Formulae.
University of the Witwatersrand
Mosothwane, M.N.
MSc 2003 Skeletal characteristics and population demography as
reflected by materials from Toutswe tradition sites in eastern
Botswana, west of the Shashe-Limpopo basin
University of Pretoria
Hemingway, J. MSc 2004 Intraspecific biomechanical variation of
the cross-sectional mandibular corpus in Homo sapiens: implications
for the taxonomic integrity of Australopithecus africanus
University of the Witwatersrand
Spocter, M. MSc 2004 Scaling of foramen magnum area and other
cranial variables with Body size: understanding hominid body and
brain evolution.
University of the Witwatersrand
Franklin, D. PhD 2005 Cranial Variation in Southern Africa: A
series of inter-landmark and three-dimensional multivariate
morphometric studies
University of Western Australia
Keough, N. MSc 2006 Estimation of age at death from the
microscopic structure of the femur
University of Pretoria
Van der Merwe, A.E.
MSc 2006 Human skeletal remains from Kimberley: an assessment of
health in a 19th century mining community.
University of Pretoria
Scholtz, Y MSc 2007 A geometric morphometric study into the
ontogeny and sexual dimorphism of the human scapula
University of Pretoria
Robinson, M. MSc 2007 Assessment of the reliability of metrical
methods of sex determination on skeletal remains of South African
of European descent.
University of the Witwatersrand
Pereira, L.M. MSc 2008 Restoring context and identity to
mummified human remains from South Africa: uncovering hidden
information
University of the Witwatersrand
Vance, V.L. PhD 2008 Age related changes in the human skeleton
and its implication for the determination of sex
University of Pretoria
Ngwenya, Z.P. MSc 2008 African “Archaic” Homo variation, the
evidence based on morphological analysis
University of the Witwatersrand
Bidmos, M. PhD 2009 Soft tissue evaluation as a correction
factor for University of the
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stature estimation Witwatersrand Navsa, N. PhD 2009 Skeletal
morphology of the human hand as
applied in forensic anthropology University of Pretoria
Schlebusch, C.M.
PhD 2010 Genetic variation in Khoisan-speaking populations from
southern Africa
University of the Witwatersrand
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2010 R 40000 URC Grant UCT (NRF support) 2009 R 40000 URC Grant UCT
2009 R 30000 URC Conference Travel Grant 2008 R 18500 URC Grant UCT
2008 R 30000 NRF Distinct SA Research 2007 R 55000 NRF Distinct SA
Research 2006 R 105000 URC Grant UCT 2005 R 30000 SANPAD Research
Grant 2005-2007 R 400000 URC Grant UCT 2004 R 20000 SANPAD Workshop
Grant 2003 R 21000 URC Grant UCT 2003 R 30000 URC Grant UCT 2002 R
15000 URC Grant UCT 2001 R 25000 NRF Annual Grant Support 2000 R
25000 Merrin Overseas Travel Grant 1998 R 9000 FRD Annual Core
Grant 1996 – 1999 R 15000/annum (4 years) Ernest Oppenheimer Trust
1996 R 25000 FRD Sabbatical Grant 1996 R 12500 Crossley Grant 1996
R 8000 Mellon Grant 1996 R 12000 CSD Research Grant 1995 – 1996 R
18000 Merrin Overseas Travel Grant 1993 R 8400 Ernest Oppenheimer
Trust 1991 R 15000 FRD Sabbatical Grant 1991 R 12500 Crossley Grant
1991 R 6000 Mellon Grant 1991 R 20000 FRD Annual Core Grant 1988 –
1995 R 12000/annum (8 years) TOTAL (1988 – 2010) R 1 186 900