nikolaas johannes van der merwe - University of Cape Town

CURRICULUM VITAE: NIKOLAAS JOHANNES VAN DER MERWE
Date of birth: 11 August 1940
Place of birth: Riviersonderend, Cape Province, South Africa
Citizenship: U.S.A. and South Africa (dual)
Marital Status: Married
ADDRESS AND TELEPHONE NUMBERS
Department of Archaeology Office tel.: Int + 2721-650-4386
University of Cape Town Office fax: Int + 2721-650-2352
7701 Rondebosch Home tel.: Int + 2721-788-1751
South Africa Internet: nikolaas@science.uct.ac.za
DEGREES
B.A. (cum laude) in Anthropology and Physics,Yale College, 1962
M.A. in Anthropology (Archaeology), Yale University, 1965
Ph.D. in Anthropology (Archaeology), Yale University, 1966
M.A. honoris causa, Harvard University, 1988
D.Sc. honoris causa, University of Port Elizabeth, 1995
APPOINTMENTS
Yale University:
Curatorial and laboratory assistant, 1962-1966
State University of New York at Binghamton:
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, 1966-1969
Associate Professor of Anthropology, 1969-1974
University of Cape Town:
Professor of Archaeology, 1974-2000 (part-time 1988-2000)
Director, Centre for African Studies, 1976-1978
Director, Archaeometry Research Unit, Fndtn for Research Dev., 1993-98
Professor of Natural History, 2000-present
Harvard University:
Landon T. Clay Professor of Scientific Archaeology, Department of
Anthropology 1988-2001
Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences (1988-2001 )

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Fellow of
American Anthropological Association
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Explorers Club, New York
Royal Society of South Africa
Society of Antiquaries of London
University of Cape Town
Member of
British Institute in Eastern Africa
Pan African Association of Prehistory and Quaternary Studies
Sigma Xi, Harvard Chapter
Society for American Archaeology
Society for Archaeological Science (life member)
South African Archaeological Society (life member; Honorary General Secretary
1974 - 79)
South African Society for Quaternary Research
Southern African Association of Archaeologists (founder member)
West African Archaeological Association (founder member)
AWARD AND HONORS
1958 – 62 Robin Shipping Line (Moore-McCormack) Scholarship: awarded to one
South African student per year to attend Yale College
1959 German Prize, Yale College
1962 Yale College: Departmental honors in Anthropology; bachelor’s degree
cum laude
1962 – 64 Yale Miller Graduate Fellowship
1964 – 66 Ford Foundation Foreign Area Fellowship: African studies and
archaeological field work in South Africa
1965 Augusta Hazard Archaeological Fellowship, Yale University
1980 – 81 British Science Research Council: Senior Visiting Fellowship at Oxford
Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art
1983 Killam Visiting Scholar Award, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
1991 Telemecanique Conservation Award
1991 University of Rhode Island Distinguished Visiting Scholar
1994 Royal Society of South Africa: John F.W. Herschel medal for
interdisciplinary research
1998 Archaeological Institute of America: Pomerance Award for scientific
contributions to archaeology
PUBLICATIONS: Books

1969 van der Merwe. The Carbon-14 Dating of Iron. University of Chicago Press: Chicago
and London. xii + 137pp, figures, tables, 2 appendices, bibliography, index.
1979 N.J. van der Merwe & T.N. Huffman (Eds.). Iron Age Studies in Southern Africa. South
African Archaeological Society, Goodwin Series 3. 176 pp., editorial, 16 articles, figures,
tables.
N.J. van der Merwe & M.E. West (Eds.). Perspectives on South Africa's Future.
University of Cape Town: Centre for African Studies Occasional Papers No.3. 187 pp.,
introduction, 18 chapters, figures, tables.

PUBLICATIONS: Articles in specialist journals and contributions to books.
1964 R.J. Mason & N.J. van der Merwe. Radiocarbon dating of iron age sites in the southern
Transvaal. South African Journal of Science 60:142.
1965 N.J. van der Merwe. Carbon-14 dating of iron: A new archaeological tool. Current
Anthropology 6:475. Reprinted in Bulletin of the Historical Metallurgy Group of the Iron
and Steel Institute 7:44-45 (1966).
1966 N.J. van der Merwe. New mathematics for glottochronology. Current Anthropology
7:485-500 (includes review comments).
1968 M. Stuiver and N. J. van der Merwe. Radiocarbon chronology of the Iron Age in sub-
Saharan Africa. Current Anthropology 9:54-58.
N.J. van der Merwe & M. Stuiver. Dating iron by the carbon-14 method. Current
Anthropology 9:48-53.
1969 N.J. van der Merwe. On radiocarbon chronology of the Iron Age in Sub-Saharan Africa.
(Reply to Shaw, Shinnie and Davies.) Current Anthropology 10:226-230.
1970 N.J. van der Merwe. On C-14 dating of iron. (Reply to Kellers.) Current Anthropology
11:478.
1971 N.J. van der Merwe & R.T.K. Scully. The Phalaborwa story: archaeological and
ethnographic investigations of a South African Iron Age group. World Archaeology
3:178-196.
1972 N.J. van der Merwe and P.H. Stein. Soil chemistry of postmolds vs. rodent burrows:
identification without excavation. American Antiquity 37:245-254.
1975 N.J. van der Merwe and L.B. Blank. Cannabis smoking in 13th-14th century Ethiopia:
chemical evidence. In V. Rubin (ed.): Cannabis and Culture, pp.77-80. The Hague:
Mouton.
1976 G.P. Rightmire & N.J. van der Merwe. Two burials from Phalaborwa and the association
of race and culture in the Iron Age of Southern Africa. South African Archaeological
Bulletin 31:147-152.
1977 N.J. van der Merwe. Preuves chimiques de l'usage de fumer le Cannabis en Éthiopie aux
XIIIe-XIVe siècles (translated by R. Mauny). Bulletin de l'Institut Fondemental d'
Afrique Noire (Dakar) 39(B3):658-661.
J.C. Vogel & N.J. van der Merwe. Isotopic evidence for early maize cultivation in New
York State. American Antiquity 42:238-242.

1978 N.J. van der Merwe & J.C. Vogel. 13 C content of human collagen as a measure of
prehistoric diet in Woodland North America. Nature 276:815-6.
N.J. van der Merwe. Field methodology and Iron Age archaeology at Buhwa, Rhodesia.
Occasional Papers of the National Museums of Rhodesia 4(3): 101-105.
1979 N.J. van der Merwe and D. J. Killick. Square: An iron smelting site near Phalaborwa. In
N.J. van der Merwe & T.N. Huffman (Eds.): Iron Age Studies in Southern Africa, South
African Archaeological Society Goodwin Series 3:86-93.
N.J. van der Merwe. The Iron Age: A prehistory of Bantu-speaking South Africans.
Perspectives on the South African Past, pp 96-107. University of Cape Town: Centre for
African Studies Occasional Papers No.2.
1980 N.J. van der Merwe. The advent of iron in Africa. In T.E. Wertime & J.D. Muhly (Eds.):
The Coming of the Age of Iron, pp 463-506. New Haven: Yale University Press.
N.J. van der Merwe. Production of high carbon steel in the African Iron Age. In R.E.
Leakey & B.A. Ogot, (Eds.): Proceedings of the 8th Panafrican Congress of Prehistory
and Quarternary Studies, Nairobi 1977, pp.331-333.
1981 N.J. van der Merwe, Anna C. Roosevelt & J.C Vogel. Isotopic evidence for prehistoric
subsistence change at Parmana, Venezuela. Nature 292:536-538.
1982 N.J. van der Merwe & D.H. Avery. Pathways to steel. American Scientist 70:146-155.
N.J. van der Merwe. Carbon isotopes and archaeology. South African Journal of Science
78: 14-16.
Y. von Schirnding, N. J. van der Merwe and J.C. Vogel. Influence of diet and age on
carbon isotopes in ostrich eggshell. Archaeometry 24:3-20.
N.J. van der Merwe. Carbon isotopes, photosynthesis, and archaeology. American
Scientist 70:596-606.
1983 N. J. van der Merwe & J. C. Vogel. Recent carbon isotope research and its implications
for African archaeology. African Archaeological Review 1:33-56.
1984 R.B. Gordon and N.J. van der Merwe. Metallographic study of iron artifacts from the
Eastern Transvaal, South Africa. Archaeometry 26:108-130.
1985 N.J. van der Merwe. Carbon isotope ecology of herbivores and carnivores.
Palaeoecology of Africa 17:123-131.

J.C. Sealy & N. J. van der Merwe. Isotope assessment of Holocene human diets in the
southwestern Cape, South Africa. Nature 315:138-40.
J.C. Sealy & N.J. van der Merwe. The first accelerator radiocarbon dates in South
African archaeology. South African Journal of Science 81:350-351.
1986 J.C. Sealy & N. J. van der Merwe. Isotope assessment and the seasonal mobility
hypothesis in the southwestern Cape of South Africa. Current Anthropology 27:135-150.
1987 N.J. van der Merwe, J.C. Sealy & R. Yates. First accelerator carbon-14 date for pigment
from a rock painting. South African Journal of Science 83:56-57.
J.A. Lee-Thorp & N.J. van der Merwe. Carbon isotope analysis of fossil bone apatite.
South African Journal of Science 83: 712-713.
J.A. Lee-Thorp, J.L. Lanham, D. Wenner & N.J.van der Merwe. A carbon isotope survey
of South African honey. South African Journal of Science 83:186.
J.C. Sealy & N.J. van der Merwe. Stable carbon isotopes, Later Stone Age diets and
seasonal mobility in the south-western Cape. In J.Parkington & M. Hall (Eds.): Papers
on the Prehistory of the Western Cape, South Africa. British Archaeological Reports,
Oxford, pp 262-268.
J. C. Sealy & N.J. van der Merwe. On stable carbon isotopes and dietary reconstruction:
reply to Jacobson and Parkington. Current Anthropology 28:94-95.
J.C. Sealy, N. J. van der Merwe, J.A. Lee Thorp & J.L. Lanham. Nitrogen isotope
ecology in southern Africa: Implications for environmental and dietary tracing.
Cosmochimica et Geochimica Acta 51:2707-2717.
N.J. van der Merwe & D.H. Avery. Science and magic in African technology:
Traditional iron smelting in Malawi. Africa 57:143-172.
D.B. Wenner & N.J. van der Merwe. Mining for the lowest grade ore: traditional iron
production in Northern Malawi. Geoarchaeology 2:199-216.
T.M. Evers & N.J. van der Merwe. Iron age ceramics from Phalaborwa, north eastern
Transvaal Lowveld, South Africa. South African Archaeological Bulleten 42:87-106.
1988 J.E. Buikstra, W. Antry, E. Breitburg, L. Eisenberg & N.J. van der Merwe. Diet and
health in the Nashville Basin: human adaptation and maize agriculture in Middle
Tennessee. In B.V. Kennedy & G.M. LeMoine (Eds.): Diet and Subsistence: Current
Archaeological Perspectives. Proceedings of the Chacmool Conference, Calgary,
Canada, pp 243-259.

D.J. Killick, N.J. van der Merwe, R.B. Gordon & D. Grebenart. Reassessment of the
evidence for early metallurgy in Niger, West Africa. Journal of Archaeological Science
15:367-394.
J.C. Sealy & N.J. van der Merwe. Social, spatial and chronological patterning in marine
food use as determined by 13 C measurements of Holocene human skeletons from the
south-western Cape, South Africa. World Archaeology 20: 87-102.
N.J. van der Merwe, J.A. Lee-Thorp & R.H.V. Bell. Carbon isotopes as indicators of
elephant diets and African environments. African Journal of Ecology 26:163-172.
1989 N.J. van der Merwe. Natural variation in 13 C concentration and its effect on
environmental reconstruction using 13 C/ 12 C ratios in animal bones. In D. Price (Ed.):
Bone Chemistry and Past Behaviour, pp. 105-125. School of American Research
Advanced Seminar Series, Cambridge University Press.
J.A. Lee Thorp, N.J. van der Merwe & C.K. Brain. Isotopic evidence for dietary
differences between two baboon species from Swartkrans. Journal of Human Evolution
18:183-190.
N.J. van der Merwe & Ernesto Medina. Photosynthesis and 13 C/ 12 C ratios in
Amazonian rain forests. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 53:1091-1094.
A. Sillen, J. Sealy & N. J. van der Merwe. Chemistry and paleodietary research: no more
easy answers. American Antiquity 54:504-512.
E. Medina, E. Olivares, M. Díaz and N.J. van der Merwe. Metabolismo ácido de
crassuláceas en bosques húmedos tropicales. In Anales de IV Congreso Latino
Americano de Botanica Vol. V, Simposio Ecofisiología, Monographs in Systematic
Botany of the Missouri Botanical Gardens 27:56-67.
N.J. van der Merwe, S.J. Saitowitz, J.F. Thackeray & C. Poggenpoel. Standardised
analyses of glass trade beads from Mgungundlovo and Ondini, 19th Century Zulu
capitals. South African Archaeological Bulletin 44:98-104.
A. Sillen, J. Sealy, J.A. Lee-Thorp, L. Horwitz & N. J. van der Merwe. Trace element
and isotope research in process: implications for Near Eastern Archaeology. In I.
Hershkowitz (Ed.): People and Culture in Change: Proceedings of the Second
Symposium on Upper Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic Populations of Europe and
the Mediterranean Basin. Oxford, British Archaeological Reports, International Series
508 (i).
1990 J.A. Lee-Thorp, J.C. Sealy & N.J. van der Merwe. Stable carbon isotope differences
between bone collagen and bone apatite and their relationship to diet. Journal of
Archaeological Science 16:585-599.

Richard Burger & N. J. van der Merwe. Maize and the origin of Highland Chavin
civilization: an isotopic perspective. American Anthropologist 92 (1):85-95.
N.J. van der Merwe, J.A. Lee-Thorp, J.F. Thackeray, A. Hall-Martin, F.J. Kruger, H.
Coetzee, R.H.V. Bell & M. Lindeque. Source-area determination of elephant ivory by
isotopic analysis. Nature 346:744-746.
J.F. Thackeray, N.J. van der Merwe, J.A. Lee-Thorp, A. Sillen, J.L. Lanham, R. Smith,
A. Keyser & P.M.S. Monteiro. Changes in carbon isotope ratios recorded in therapsid
tooth apatite. Nature 347:751-753.
M.J. Schoeninger, N.J. van der Merwe, K. Moore, J.A. Lee-Thorp & C.S. Larsen.
Decrease in diet quality between the prehistoric and contact periods. In Clark Spencer
Larsen (Ed.): The Archaeology of Mission Santa Catalina de Guale: 2. Biocultural
Interpretations of a Population in Transition, chapter 6. Anthropological Papers of the
American Museum of Natural History, No. 68.
1991 J.A. Lee-Thorp & N.J. van der Merwe. Aspects of the chemistry of modern and fossil
biological apatites. Journal of Archaeological Science 18:343-354.
J.C. Sealy, N.J. van der Merwe, A. Sillen, F.J. Kruger & H.W. Krueger. 86 Sr/ 87 Sr as a
dietary indicator in modern and archaeological bone. Journal of Archaeological Science
18:399-416.
A.D. Sholto-Douglas, J.G. Field, A.G. James & N.J. van der Merwe. 13 C/ 12 C and
15 N/ 14 N isotope ratios in the southern Benguela ecosystem: indicators of foodweb
relationships among different size classes of plankton and pelagic fish; differences
between fish muscle and bone collagen tissues. Marine Ecology Progress Series 78:23-
31.
N.J. van der Merwe & E. Medina. The canopy effect, carbon isotope ratios and foodwebs
in Amazonia. Journal of Archaeological Science 18:249-259.
1992 J. Quade, T.E. Cerling, J.C. Barry, M.E. Morgan, D.R. Pilbeam, A.R. Chivas, J.A. Lee-
Thorp & N.J. van der Merwe. A 16-Ma record of paleodiet using carbon and oxygen
isotopes in fossil teeth from Pakistan. Chemical Geology 94:183-192.
E. February and N.J. van der Merwe. Stable carbon isotope ratios of wood charcoal
during the past 4000 years: anthropogenic and climatic influences. South African
Journal of Science 88:291-292.
N.J. van der Merwe. Light stable isotopes and the reconstruction of prehistoric diets.
Proceedings of the British Academy 77:247-264.
1992 N.J. van der Merwe. Review of A History of African Archaeology, by P.T. Robertshaw
(ed.). Journal of Field Archaeology 19:403-407.

A.L. Cohen, J.E. Parkington, G.B. Brundrit & N.J. van der Merwe. A Holocene marine
climate record in mollusc shells from the southwest African coast. Quaternary Research
38:379-385.
N.J. van der Merwe. Reconstructing prehistoric diet. In S. Jones, R. Martin & D.
Pilbeam (eds.), The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution, pp. 369-372.
C.S. Larsen, M.J. Schoeninger, N.J. van der Merwe, K. Moore, & J.A. Lee-Thorp.
Carbon and nitrogen isotopic signatures of human dietary change in the Georgia Bight.
American Journal of Physical Anthropology 89 (no. 2):197-214.
1993 A.J. Hall-Martin, N.J. van der Merwe, J.A. Lee-Thorp, R.A. Armstrong, C.H. Mehl, S.
Struben & R. Tykot. Determination of species and geographic origin of rhinoceros horn
by isotopic analysis and its possible application to trade control. In O. Ryder (ed.),
Rhinoceros Biology and Conservation, pp. 123-135. San Diego: Zoological Society of
San Diego.
N.J. van der Merwe, J.A. Lee-Thorp, & J.S. Raymond. Light stable isotopes and the
subsistence base of Formative cultures at Valdivia, Ecuador. In J.B. Lambert and G.
Grupe (eds.), Prehistoric Human Bone: Archaeology at the Molecular Level, pp. 63-98.
Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
J.A. Lee-Thorp & N.J. van der Merwe. Stable carbon isotope studies of Swartkrans
fossils. In C.K. Brain (ed.), Swartkrans: A Cave's Chronicle of Early Man, pp. 351-356.
Pretoria: Transvaal Museum Monograph No. 8.
J.F. Thackeray, N.J. van der Merwe, J.A. Lee-Thorp & J. Sealy. Relationships between
stable carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios in bone collagen of African ungulates. South
African Journal of Science 89:458-459.
1994 D.E. Miller & N.J. van der Merwe. Early metal working in Sub-Saharan Africa: A
review of recent research. Journal of African History 35:1-36.
D.E. Miller & N.J. van der Merwe. Early Iron Age metal working at the Tsodilo Hills,
northwestern Botswana. Journal of Archaeological Science 21:101-115.
J.A. Lee-Thorp, N.J. van der Merwe, & C.K. Brain. Diet of Australopithecus robustus at
Swartkrans from stable carbon isotope analysis. Journal of Human Evolution 27:361-
372.
S.J. Saitowitz, N.J. van der Merwe, & C. Kaufman. Chevron beads in an Iron Age
context: A unique find from Central Angola. Muntu 9:125-156.

1994 N.J. van der Merwe, J.J. Hermann, Jr., R.H. Tykot, R. Newman, & N. Herz. Stable
carbon and oxygen isotope source tracing of marble sculptures in the Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston and the Sackler Museum, Harvard. In Y. Maniatis, N. Herz, & Y. Basiakos,
eds., The Study of Marble and Other Stones Used in Antiquity, ASMOSIA III, Athens,
17-19 May 1993, pp. 187-198. London: Archetype.
1996 S.J. Saitowitz, D.L. Reid, & N.J. van der Merwe. Glass trade beads from Islamic Egypt
to South Africa c. AD 900-1250. South African Journal of Science 92:101-104.
R.H. Tykot, N.J. van der Merwe, & N. Hammond. Stable isotope analysis of bone
collagen and apatite in the reconstruction of human diet: A case study from Cuello,
Belize. In M.V. Orna (ed.), Archaeological Chemistry V: Organic, Inorganic, and
Biochemical Analysis, pp. 355-365. Washington, DC: American Chemical Society.
1997 R.J. Blumenschine, F.T. Masao, G.M. Ashley, R.J. Clarke, J.I. Ebert, C.R. Peters, N.E.
Sikes, and N.J. van der Merwe. New paleoanthropological discoveries and tests of
hominid land use models in the Western Lacustrine Plain of the lowermost Bed II
Olduvai Basin. Journal of Human Evolution 32: A5.
S.M.M. Young, J.F. Thackeray, & N.J. van der Merwe. Vanadium concentration
variability in Plio-Pleistocene cave deposits at Kromdraai, South Africa. Annals of the
Transvaal Museum 36 (20): 253-256.
N.J. van der Merwe and J.F. Thackeray. Stable carbon isotope analysis of Plio-
Pleistocene ungulate teeth from Sterkfontein, South Africa. South African Journal of
Science 93: 194.
1999 S. Pfeiffer, N.J. van der Merwe, J.E. Parkington & R.Yates. Violent death in the past: A
case from the Western Cape. South African Journal of Science 95: 137-140.
N.J. van der Merwe & H. Tschauner. C 4 plants and the development of human societies.
In R. Sage & R.K. Monson (eds.), C 4 Plant Biology, pp.509-549. Academic Press.
N.J. van der Merwe, A. Cushing, R.J. Blumenschine. Stable isotope ratios of fauna and
the environment of palaeolake Olduvai. Journal of Human Evolution 36: A24-25.
N. J. van der Merwe, R.H.Tykot, J.J.Herrmann, Jr. & R.Newman. Isotopic source
determination of Greek and Roman marble sculptures in the Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston: Recent analyses. In M.Schvoever (ed), Archaeomateriaux: Marbres et Autres
Roches, pp.1-8. Actes de la IV eme Conférence Internationale, Bordeaux, France.
ASMOSIA IV, 9-13 Octobre 1995. Centre de Recherhe en Physique Applique a
l’Archéologie, Bordeaux.

R.H.Tykot, R. Newman & N.J. van der Merwe. Weathering surfaces on marble
sculptures: isotopic and X-ray diffraction analyses. In M. Schvoever (ed),
Archaeomateriaux: Marbres et Autres Roches , pp.239-244. Actes de la IV eme
Conférence Internationale, Bordeaux, France. ASMOSIA IV, 9-13 Octobre 1995. Centre
de Recherche en Physique Appliquee a l’Archéologie, Bordeaux.
A.Hammell, C. White, S. Pfeiffer, N.J. van der Merwe,P. Mitchell & D.Miller. South
Africa’s informal mining industry. In W.J.Caldwell (ed), Issues and Responses: Land
Use and Planning in Eastern and Southen Africa, pp.195-213. University of Guelph,
Canada.
2000 N.J. van der Merwe, R.H. Tykot, N.D.C. Hammond & K. Oakberg. Diet and animal
husbandry of preclassic Maya at Cuello, Belize: Isotopic and zooarchaeological evidence.
In S.H. Ambrose and M.A. Katzenberg (eds.), Biogeochemical Approaches to
Paleodietary Analysis, pp.23-38. Academic Kluwer/Plenum Press.
J.A. Lee-Thorp, J.F.Thackeray & N.J. van der Merwe. The hunters and the hunted
revisited. Journal of Human Evolution 39: 565-576.
2001 J.F. Thackeray, N.J. J van der Merwe & T.A. van der Merwe. Chemical analysis of
residues from 17 th century clay pipes from Stratford-upon-Avon and environs. South
African Journal of Science 97: 19-21.
J.F.Thackeray, D.J.de Ruiter, L.R.Berger & N.J.van der Merwe. Hominid fossils from
Kromdraai: a revised list of specimens discovered since 1938. Annals of the Transvaal
Museum 38: 43-56.
2002 R.H.Tykot, J.J.Herrmann, Jr., N.J. van der Merwe, R. Newman & K.O. Allegretto.
Thasian marble sculptures in European and American collections: isotopic and other
analyses. In J.J. Herrman, Jr., N. Herz & R. Newman (eds.) : Asmosia 5: Interdiciplinary
Studies on Ancient Stone,pp.188-195. London: Archetype Publications.
2003 R.L. Burger, J.A. Lee-Thorp & N.J. van der Merwe. Rite and crop in the Inca state
revisited: an isotopic perspective from Machu Picchu and beyond. In R.L.Burger & L.C.
Salazar (eds): The 1912 Yale Peruvian Scientific Expedition Collections from Machu
Picchu, Human and Animal Remains, pp. 119-137. Yale University Publications in
Anthropology No. 85.
A.C. Cook, J. Wadsworth, J.R. Southon & N.J. van der Merwe. AMS radiocarbon dating
of rusty iron. Journal of Archaeological Science 30:95-101.
R.J Blumenschine, C.R. Peters, F.T. Masao, R.J. Clarke, A.L. Deino, R.L. Hay, C.C.
Swisher, I.G.Stanistreet, G.M. Ashley, L.J. McHenry, N.E. Sikes, N.J. van der Merwe,
J.C. Tactikos, A.E. Cushing, D. M. Deocampo, J.K. Njau & J.I. Ebert. Late Pliocene
Homo and hominid land use from western Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Science, in press (21
February).

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N.J.van der Merwe, J.F.Thackeray & J.A.Lee-Thorp. The carbon isotope ecology and diet
of Australopithecus africanus at Sterkfontein, South Africa. Journal of Human Evolution,
in press.
N.J.van der Merwe. CO2 and human evolution. In J.Ehleringer (ed), The History of
Atmospheric CO2 and its Effect on Ecosystems. Springer Verlag, in press.
D.Miller, D.J.Killick & N.J.van der Merwe. Metal working in the northern Lowveld,
south Africa. Journal of Field Archaeology, in press.
D. Miller, D.J.Killick & N.J.van der Merwe. Late Iron Age metal working technology at
Phalaborwa (northern Lowveld, South Africa). South African Journal of Science, under
review.
D.Miller, S.M.M.Young, W.A.Green, I.Horn & N.J.van der Merwe. Lead isotope
analysis for copper artefact provenance in central Namibia. Archaeometry, under review.
M.R. Howland, L.T.Corr, S.M.M.Young, V. Jones, S. Jim, N.J. van der Merwe,
A.V.Mitchell & R.P. Evershed. Expression of the dietary isotope signal in the compound
specific δ 13 C values of pig bone lipids and amino acids. Journal of Anthropological
Archaeology, in press.
J.A. Lee-Thorp, M. Sponheimer & N.J. van der Merwe. What do stable isotopes tell us
about hominid dietary and ecological niches in the Pliocene? Journal of Anthropological
Archaeology, in press.
N.J. van der Merwe, S.Pfeiffer, R.F. Williamson, K.O. Allegretto & M.A. Katzenberg.
The Moatfield ossuary: isotopic dietary analysis of an Iroquoian community using dental
tissue. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, in press.
N.J. van der Merwe, S. Pfeiffer & R.F. Williamson. Isotopic analyses and the diet of the
moatfield community. In: R.F. Williamson & S. Pfeiffer (eds): Bones of the Ancestors:
The Archaeology and Osteobiography of the Moatfield Ossuary. Canadian Museum of
Civilization, Mercury Series, in press.