Prof Marlize Lombard

Research Chair
Name: Marlize Lombard
Location: House 10, Humanities Research Village Bunting Road Campus
Palaeo-Research Staff & Members, Rated Researchers  Staff Members

Contact Details:
Tel: 011 559 1744

Email: mlombard@uj.ac.za

About Prof Marlize Lombard

Professor with Research Focus in Stone Age Archaeology

​Sometime during the Middle Stone Age, in sub-Saharan Africa, Homo sapiens evolved biologically, behaviourally and cognitively. My research agenda is geared towards the generation of knowledge about all three of these evolutionary processes in the southern African context and how they relate to each other. The long-term aim is to create an integrated, detailed a​nd holistic understanding of the evolution of our species in the region since about 500 000 years ago.

The Palaeo-TrACKS (Tracing Ancient Cognition and Knowledge Systems through the Stone Age) Research Programme is funded through an African Origins Platform Grant from the National Research Foundation of South Africa, and is managed in four distinct research legs:

Micro-TrACKS (Tracing Ancient Cognition and Knowledge Systems through Micro-methods)
Geno-TrACKS (Tracing Stone Age Population History through DNA)
Mind-TrACKS (Tracing Ancient Cognition through Stone Age Technologies)
TrACKS on the Highveld (Tracing Hominin/Human Presence on the trans-Vaal Highveld Grassland Bioregion during the Stone Age)
All four tracks are intimately linked with the research programmes of local and international collaborators. Together we aim to explore: a) the Stone Age occupational history of southern Africa, b) behavioural and cognitive evolutionary trends during the Stone Age, and c) indigenous knowledge systems associated with the Middle and Later Stone Ages of southern Africa.

Opportunities

Researchers interested in joining the Palaeo-TrACKS research group as honorary research fellows, post-Doctoral research fellows, PhD or Masters students, may contact me at the e-mail address below.

Publications

http://johannesburg.academia.edu/Mar​lizeLombard​

Google Scholar Profile

https://scholar.google.co.za/citations?user=W0G5vXwAAAAJ&hl=en

Contact details

mlombard@uj.ac.za

Current Senior Research Fellows associated with the Palaeo-TrACKS group

Prof Anders Högberg

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.se/citations?user=KYqmNwsAAAAJ&hl=sv

Publications: https://linnaeus.academia.edu/andersH%C3%B6gberg

Dr Geeske Langejans

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=o2rIZo8AAAAJ

Publications: https://independent.academia.edu/GeeskeLangejans

Dr Gerrit Dusseldorp

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.za/citations?user=hdy0uDgAAAAJ&hl=en

Publications: https://johannesburg.academia.edu/GerritDusseldorp

Justin Pargeter

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.za/citations?user=8zCXvAUAAAAJ&hl=en

Publications: https://sbsuny.academia.edu/JustinPargeter

Research Associate

Dr Justin Bradfield

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.za/citations?user=3l70284AAAAJ&hl=en

Publications: https://wits.academia.edu/JustinBradfield

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow

Dr Katherine Kyriacou

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.za/citations?user=kKpKhq4AAAAJ&hl=en

Publications: https://johannesburg.academia.edu/KatharineKyriacou