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List of works by Thembi Russell

A southern African archaeological database of organic containers and materials, 800 cal BC to cal AD 1500: Possible implications for the transition from foraging to livestock-keeping

scientific article published on 08 July 2020

Male-biased migration from East Africa introduced pastoralism into southern Africa

scientific article published on 07 December 2021

Mapping past human land use using archaeological data: A new classification for global land use synthesis and data harmonization

Scholarly Article published in 2021

Modelling the spread of farming in the Bantu-speaking regions of Africa: an archaeology-based phylogeography

scientific article (publication date: 2014)

Neolithic transition in Europe: the radiocarbon record revisited

scholarly article by Marina Gkiasta published in March 2003

The archaeological evidence for the appearance of pastoralism and farming in southern Africa.

scientific article

The role of the Cape’s unique climatic boundaries in sustaining specialised pastoralists in southern Africa during the last 2000 years

journal article from 'Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa' published in 2020

Through the skin: Exploring pastoralist marks and their meanings to understand parts of East African rock art

scholarly article by Thembi Russell published in December 2012

‘ What is consumed is wasted’: from foraging to herding in the southern African Later Stone Age

scientific article published on 3 July 2015

‘People will no longer be people but will have markings and be animals’ : investigating connections between diet, myth, ritual and rock art in southern African archaeology

scientific article published on 31 January 2017

‘The bees are our sheep’: the role of honey and fat in the transition to livestock keeping during the last two thousand years in southernmost Africa

scientific article published on 3 July 2015

‘Where goats connect people’: Cultural diffusion of livestock not food production amongst southern African hunter-gatherers during the Later Stone Age

scholarly article by Thembi Russell published in April 2017