Judith Sealy is a Professor and South Africa Research Chairs Initiative Research Chair in

Archaeology Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landsca ...

and Paleoenvironmental Studies and director of the Stable Light Isotope Lab in the Department of Archaeology at the

University of Cape Town The University of Cape Town (UCT) ( af, Universiteit van Kaapstad, xh, Yunibesithi ya yaseKapa) is a public research university in Cape Town, South Africa. Established in 1829 as the South African College, it was granted full university statu ...

Selected publications

* Loftus, E. J., & J. Sealy, 2012. "Interpreting stable carbon isotopes in human tooth enamel: an examination of tissue spacings from South Africa". ''American Journal of Physical Anthropology'' 147: 499–507. * Sealy, J., & M. Galimberti, 2011. "Shellfishing and the interpretation of shellfish sizes in the Middle and Later Stone Ages of South Africa". In: N. F. Bicho, J. A. Haws & L. G. Davis (eds), ''Trekking the Shore: Changing Coastlines and the Antiquity of Coastal Settlement'': 405–419. New York: Springer. *Codron, J., D. Codron, J. A. Lee-Thorp, M. Sponheimer, K. Kirkman, K. J. Duffy & J. Sealy, 2011. "Landscape-scale feeding patterns of African elephant inferred from carbon isotope analysis of feces". ''Oecologia'' 165: 89–99. *Sealy, J., 2010. "Isotopic evidence for the antiquity of cattle-based pastoralism in southernmost Africa". '' Journal of African Archaeology'' 8(1): 65–81. *Ribot, I., A. G. Morris, J. Sealy & T. Maggs, 2010. "Population history and economic change in the last 2000 years in KwaZulu-Natal, RSA". ''Southern African Humanities'' 22: 89–112. *Hine, P., J. Sealy, D. Halkett & T. Hart, 2010. "Antiquity of stone-walled tidal fish-traps on the Cape coast, South Africa". ''South African Archaeological Bulletin'' 65: 35–44. *Styring, A. K., J. C. Sealy & R. P. Evershed, 2010. "Resolving the bulk δ15N values of ancient human and animal bone collagen via compound-specific nitrogen isotope analysis of constituent amino acids". ''Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta'' 74: 241–251. *Chase, B. M., M. E. Meadows, L. Scott, D. S. G. Thomas, E. Marais, J. Sealy & P. J. Reimer, 2009. "A record of rapid Holocene climate change preserved in hyrax middens from southwestern Africa". ''Geology'' 37(8): 703–706. *Lee-Thorp, J. A., & J. C. Sealy, 2008. "Beyond documenting diagenesis: the Fifth International Bone Diagenesis Workshop". ''Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology'' 266:129–133. *Stynder, D. D., R. R. Ackermann & J. C. Sealy, 2007. "Craniofacial variation and population continuity during the South African Holocene". ''American Journal of Physical Anthropology'' 134(4):489–500. *Sealy, J. 2006. "Diet, mobility and settlement pattern among Holocene hunter-gatherers in southernmost Africa". ''Current Anthropology 47:569–595. *Sealy, J., B. Ludwig & Z. Henderson, 2006. "New radiocarbon dates for Matjes River Rock Shelter". ''South African Archaeological Bulletin'' 61:98–101. *Clayton, F., J. Sealy & S. Pfeiffer, 2006. "Weaning age among foragers at Matjes River Rock Shelter, South Africa, from stable nitrogen and carbon isotope analyses". ''American Journal of Physical Anthropology'' 129:311–317. *Pfeiffer, S., & J. Sealy, 2006. "Body size among Holocene foragers of the Cape ecozone, southern Africa". ''American Journal of Physical Anthropology'' 129:1–11. *Corr, L. T., J. C. Sealy, M. C. Horton & R. P. Evershed, 2005. "A novel marine dietary indicator utilizing compound-specific bone collagen amino acid δ13C values of ancient humans". ''Journal of Archaeological Science'' 32:321–330. *Sealy, J., T. Maggs, A. Jerardino & J. Kaplan, 2004. "Excavations at Melkbosstrand: variability among herder sites on Table Bay, South Africa". ''South African Archaeological Bulletin'' 59:17–28. *Henshilwood, C. S., F. D'Errico, R. Yates, Z. Jacobs, C. Tribolo, G. A. T. Duller, N. Mercier, J. C. Sealy, H. Valladas, I. Watts & A. G. Wintle, 2002. "Emergence of modern human behaviour: Middle Stone Age engravings from South Africa". ''Science'' 295:1278–1280. *Henshilwood, C. S., J. C. Sealy, R. Yates, K. Cruz-Uribe, P. Goldberg, F. E. Grine, R. G. Klein, C. Poggenpoel, K. van Niekerk & I. Watts, 2001. " Blombos Cave, southern Cape, South Africa: preliminary report on the 1992–1999 excavations of the Middle Stone Age levels". ''Journal of Archaeological Science'' 28:421–448. *Cox, G., J. Sealy, C. Schrire & A. Morris, 2001. "Stable carbon and nitrogen isotopic analyses of the underclass at the colonial Cape of Good Hope in the 18th and 19th century". ''World Archaeology'' 33:73–97.

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