Lucinda Backwell

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Lucinda Backwell is affiliated with the following schools: University of Cape Town, University of Bordeaux, University of the Witwatersrand

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Archeology

#566

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#783

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Lucinda Backwell's Degrees

Bachelors Archaeology University of Cape Town
Masters Archaeology University of Cape Town

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According to Wikipedia, Lucinda Backwell is an archaeologist and a member of the Academy of Science of South Africa. She obtained her MSc in palaeoanthropology from the University of the Witwatersrand Medical School in 2000. Her PhD in palaeoanthropology was awarded in 2004, making her the first South African woman to be awarded a PhD in palaeoanthropology at a local institution. In 2011, she was promoted to senior researcher at the Evolutionary Studies Institute of the University of the Witwatersrand, where she taught introductory courses on human evolution and taphonomy, and supervised postgraduates on various topics, including fossil assemblages from caves in the Cradle of Humankind. In 2017, she moved to Argentina and took up a position at CONICET. She is associated with the Grupo de Investigación en Arqueología Andina , Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto Miguel Lillo, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. She has been published 50 times and has been involved in 11 documentaries. Her research interests include taphonomy, archaeology, paleontology and ethnoarchaeology.

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Lucinda Backwell's Published Works

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Archaeological Evidence for the Emergence of Language, Symbolism, and Music–An Alternative Multidisciplinary Perspective (2003) (505)
Early evidence of San material culture represented by organic artifacts from Border Cave, South Africa (2012) (315)
Middle Stone Age bone tools from the Howiesons Poort layers, Sibudu Cave, South Africa (2008) (254)
Evidence of termite foraging by Swartkrans early hominids. (2001) (211)
Border Cave and the beginning of the Later Stone Age in South Africa (2012) (168)
Geological and taphonomic context for the new hominin species Homo naledi from the Dinaledi Chamber, South Africa (2015) (132)
Identifying regional variability in Middle Stone Age bone technology: The case of Sibudu Cave (2012) (129)
New Australopithecus robustus fossils and associated U-Pb dates from Cooper's Cave (Gauteng, South Africa). (2009) (98)
From Tools to Symbols: from Early Hominids to Modern Humans, edited by Francesco d'Errico & Lucinda Backwell, 2005. Johannesburg: Wits University Press; ISBN 1-86814-434-8 hardback £38.94 & US$59.95; ISBN 1-86814-411-9 paperback £26.49 & US$39.95; xxxii+574 pp., 140 figs., 33 tables (2007) (98)
Criteria for identifying bone modification by termites in the fossil record (2012) (97)
Earliest evidence of personal ornaments associated with burial: the Conus shells from Border Cave. (2016) (92)
Early hominid bone tools from Drimolen, South Africa (2008) (75)
Possible evidence of bone tool shaping by Swartkrans early hominids (2003) (74)
Assessing the function of early hominin bone tools (2009) (68)
The first use of bone tools: a reappraisal of the evidence from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania (2004) (61)
Multiproxy record of late Quaternary climate change and Middle Stone Age human occupation at Wonderkrater, South Africa (2014) (59)
Cooked starchy rhizomes in Africa 170 thousand years ago (2020) (49)
Probable human hair found in a fossil hyaena coprolite from Gladysvale cave, South Africa (2009) (47)
Taphonomic Analysis of the Faunal Assemblage Associated with the Hominins (Australopithecus sediba) from the Early Pleistocene Cave Deposits of Malapa, South Africa (2015) (42)
New Excavations at Border Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (2018) (40)
Additional evidence on the early hominid bone tools from Swartkrans with reference to spatial distribution of lithic and organic artefacts (2003) (34)
The antiquity of bow-and-arrow technology: evidence from Middle Stone Age layers at Sibudu Cave (2018) (34)
Traditional Glue, Adhesive and Poison Used for Composite Weapons by Ju/’hoan San in Nyae Nyae, Namibia. Implications for the Evolution of Hunting Equipment in Prehistory (2015) (33)
Ma'anshan cave and the origin of bone tool technology in China (2016) (31)
Bone tool use in termite foraging by early hominids and its impact on our understanding of early hominid behaviour : research in action (2001) (29)
Investigation of chemical changes in bone material from South African fossil hominid deposits (2010) (28)
Identification of fossil hairs in Parahyaena brunnea coprolites from Middle Pleistocene deposits at Gladysvale cave, South Africa (2013) (28)
Fire and grass-bedding construction 200 thousand years ago at Border Cave, South Africa (2020) (28)
The character, origin and palaeoenvironmental significance of the Wonderkrater spring mound, South Africa (2010) (26)
Osseous Projectile Weaponry from Early to Late Middle Stone Age Africa (2016) (20)
Comment on "Deliberate body disposal by hominins in the Dinaledi Chamber, Cradle of Humankind, South Africa?" [J. Hum. Evol. 96 (2016) 145-148]. (2016) (18)
The chemical removal of manganese dioxide coatings from fossil bones from the Cradle of Humankind, South Africa (2005) (13)
A Mid-Pleistocene in situ fossil brown hyaena (Parahyaena brunnea) latrine from Gladysvale Cave, South Africa (2009) (12)
Tool Use in Animals: Early hominin social learning strategies underlying the use and production of bone and stone tools (2013) (10)
Response to Thackeray (2016) - The possibility of lichen growth on bones of Homo naledi: Were they exposed to light? (2016) (9)
Plant bedding construction between 60,000 and 40,000 years ago at Border Cave, South Africa (2022) (9)
Geoarchaeology and zooarchaeology of Border Cave, South Africa: Initial multiproxy considerations of stratigraphy and site formation processes from the Backwell et al. excavations (2022) (8)
Reply to Evans: Use of poison remains the most parsimonious explanation for Border Cave castor bean extract (2012) (8)
Reconstruction of the burial position of two hominin skeletons (Australopithecus sediba) from the early Pleistocene Malapa cave site, South Africa (2018) (7)
New evidence of bone tool use by Early Pleistocene hominins from Cooper’s D, Bloubank Valley, South Africa (2021) (7)
Border Cave: A 227,000-year-old archive from the southern African interior (2022) (7)
Holocene large mammal mass death assemblage from South Africa (2017) (7)
A reappraisal of the Border Cave 1 cranium (KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa) (2022) (6)
Bone Tools, Paleolithic (2020) (6)
Luminescence dating at Border Cave: attempts, questions, and new results (2022) (6)
Termites and necrophagous insects associated with early Pleistocene (Gelasian) Australopithecus sediba at Malapa, South Africa (2020) (5)
Optical dating of quartz and feldspars: A comparative study from Wonderkrater, a Middle Stone Age site of South Africa (2012) (5)
Additional evidence of early hominid bone tools from South Africa. First attempt at exploring inter-site variability (2009) (5)
Invertebrate Modification of Bone (2021) (4)
A vegetation record based on charcoal analysis from Border Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, ∼227 000 to ∼44 000 years ago (2022) (3)
The effect of heat on keratin and implications for the archaeological record (2020) (3)
Lithic technological and spatial analysis of the final Pleistocene at Border Cave, South Africa (2022) (3)
Hair morphology of some artiodactyls from southern Africa (2014) (3)
Plants, people and fire: Phytolith and FTIR analyses of the post-Howiesons Poort occupations at Border Cave (KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa) (2023) (3)
Technological and geometric morphometric analysis of ‘post-Howiesons Poort points’ from Border Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (2022) (2)
Environmental Risk Assessment in E & P Activities (1997) (2)
San Elders Speak (2021) (1)
A critical assessment of southern African 'early hominid bone tools' (2014) (1)
Deliberate body disposal by hominins in the Dinaledi Chamber , Cradle of Humankind , South Africa ? (2016) (1)
Vegetation and environmental changes at the Middle Stone Age site of Wonderkrater, Limpopo, South Africa (2017) (1)
Erratum to “Investigation of chemical changes in bone material from South African fossil hominid deposits” [J. Archaeol. Sci. 37 (2010) 107–115] (2010) (1)
Geological and taphonomic context of excavations within the Rising Star cave system (2016) (0)
Technological and functional analysis of 80–60 ka bone wedges from Sibudu (KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa) (2022) (0)
Evidence for large land snail cooking and consumption at Border Cave c. 170–70 ka ago. Implications for the evolution of human diet and social behaviour (2023) (0)
Early hominid bone tool industries. (2014) (0)
New excavations of the Later and Middle Stone Age layers at Bushman Rock Shelter, Limpopo Province, South Africa (2015) (0)
New Excavations at Border Cave: Preliminary Reflections on Stratigraphy and Site Formation Processes (2019) (0)
Preface (2021) (0)

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