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Adventures in forensic anthropology

Author: Morris, Alan Date: 2012 Professor Morris of the Department of Human Biology (Faculty of Health Sciences, UCT) presented this talk for the Friends of the South African Museum at the Iziko Museum. The content of this audio lecture will be of interest to anthropology ... Read more c b d
Anthropometric variability, equipment usability and musculoskeletal pain in a group of nurses in the Western Cape

Author: Botha, Winifred Edna Date: 1997 This study examined the anthropometry and anthropometric fit of a group of ward and theatre nurses in Western Cape private hospitals. Anthropometric variables were measured using a sample of nurses and a correlation matrix generated. All ... Read more
An archaeological, anthropological study of the human skeletal remains from the Oakhurst Rockshelter, George, Cape Province, Southern Africa

Author: Patrick, Mary Kennedy Date: 1989 Osteological and dental analyses have been widely used to outline a graded response to nutritional and physiological stress in human bone. It is argued that agriculturalists and transitional agro/pastoralists are more stressed than the hunter ... Read more
An assessment of the health status by non-specific stress indicators in early farming populations from central and southern Africa

Author: Dlamini, Nonhlanhla Date: 2006 The adoption of an agricultural lifestyle had profound implications for nutritional ecology, health and behaviour of human populations. The goal of this project was to generate information about the health status and disease patterns of early ... Read more
Dialogues with the dead : an osteological analysis of the palaeodemography and life history of the 18th and 19th century northern frontier in South Africa

Author: Peckmann, Tanya Rochelle Date: 2002 Osteological, dental, and molecular analyses were conducted on remains from seven historical archaeological sites within South Africa. The emphasis was on the collection of lifestyle data for the purpose of adding to the unwritten history of ... Read more
The early inhabitants of the Upemba depression, the Democratic Republic of Congo

Author: Dlamini, Nonhlanhla Date: 2014 This research set out to shed light on the contradiction between the archaeological evidence pointing towards cultural continuity and the Luba’s rejection of ancestral relationships with the human skeletal remains found in the Upemba Depression ... Read more
Identifying the dead : eighteenth century mortuary practices at Cobern Street, Cape Town

Author: Apollonio, Heather Date: 1998 A unique opportunity to study historic burial practices in Cape Town arose in 1994 when construction activities at Cobern Street, Green Point revealed an eighteenth century burial ground. Subsequent salvage excavations unearthed approximately ... Read more
An odontological analysis of 18th and 19th century burial sites from in and around Cape Town

Author: Manyaapelo, Thabang Date: 2007 The development of the city of Cape Town in the last 20 years has led to the discovery of burial sites 110t sufficiently documented in the city's archival records. Human remains under study were recovered from three different locations namely ... Read more
Schooling, 'culture' and class : a study of White and Coloured schooling and its relationship to performance in sociology at the University of Cape Town

Author: Morris, Alan Date: 1985 This thesis is an exploratory endeavour to investigate 'white' and 'coloured' schooling and the relationship between this schooling and performance in Sociology at the University of Cape Town. It investigates these aspects using a number of ... Read more