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IN CONVERSATION WITH PROFESSOR DOMINIC STRATFORD ON SCIENCE WISE

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Professor Dominic Stratford is a geoarchaeologist
whose research focuses on stratigraphy and site
formation processes at archaeological and
palaeoanthropological sites in southern Africa. He
specialises in cave and rock shelter sediments but has
worked across a wide range of fossil- and artefact-bearing
landscapes, from arid open environments to buried river
gravels. His work is deeply interdisciplinary, drawing
together archaeology and the earth sciences to
understand how sites formed over time and to separate
human behavioural signals from the many natural
processes that shape them. He has applied this work
across southern Africa, from the Namib Desert to caves
and rock shelters preserving deposits spanning the last
3.5 million years. He is also the Director of Research at
Sterkfontein Caves, where he supports innovative
research ranging from multi-scale analysis of StW 573, or
“Little Foot,” to three-dimensional spatial analysis of
fossils and stone tools, as well as augmented reality
applications in science education.
14 Apr English South Africa Technology · Music

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