Turid Hillestad Nel
Postdoctoral Fellow
- E-mailturid.nel@uib.no
- Phone+47 55 58 20 56
- Visitor AddressØysteins gate 35007 Bergen
- Postal AddressPostboks 78055020 Bergen
I analyse small mammals, which become incorporated into archaeological sediments, in order to reconstruct local palaeoenvironments. Small mammals are rodents such as mice, shrews, golden moles, bats, mole rats, gerbils etc. These rodents are suitable palaeoenvironmental proxies as they are spatio-temporally constrained, have small home-ranges (usually less than 1 km radius), precise ecological requirements and t they often exhibit high intrinsic rates of population increase facilitating rapid response to environmental change within fine spatiotemporal scales.
- (2023). Peptide mass fingerprinting as a tool to assess micromammal biodiversity in Pleistocene South Africa: The case of Klipdrift Shelter. Quaternary Science Reviews.
- (2023). Klipdrift Shelter, South Africa. 13 pages.
- (2023). Blombos Cave, South Africa. 16 pages.
- (2022). Pilot fires: Preliminary Report from Interdisciplinary Actualistic Fire Experiments. EXARC Journal. 10 pages.
- (2022). From lab to kitchen: teaching experimental archaeology during lock-down.
- (2021). Will it burn? Micromammal bone in four fire experiments.
- (2021). The cryptic case of Otomys sloggetti (Sloggett’s vlei rat): Interpreting murid molar morphology in the fossil record. South African Journal of Science. 82-90.
- (2021). The 100,000–77,000‑Year Old Middle Stone Age Micromammal Sequence from Blombos Cave, South Africa: Local Climatic Stability or a Tale of Predator Bias? African Archaeological Review. 34 pages.
- (2020). The Howiesons Poort micromammal assemblage at Klipdrift Shelter, South Africa – local palaeoenvironmental implications .
- (2020). Report from SapienCE experimental archaeology season 2020 .
- (2019). Small mammals from the Still Bay levels at Blombos Cave, South Africa.
- (2019). Palaeoenvironments and human adaptations – analyses of micromammals from Howiesons Poort sequences in the southern Cape, South Africa .
- (2019). Local environmental context of the Howiesons Poort sequence at Klipdrift Shelter, South Africa .
- (2019). Fra tegnerens hule: Blombos Cave, moderne mennesker og symboler .
- (2018). Small mammals from Marine Isotope Stage 5 at Klasies River, South Africa - Reconstructing the local palaeoenvironment. Quaternary International. 6-20.
- (2018). Environmental context of the lower Middle Stone Age sequence at Blombos Cave, South Africa.
- (2018). Environmental context of the Middle Stone Age sequence at Blombos Cave, South Africa.
- (2016). The small mammal sequence from Marine Isotope Stage 5 at Klasies River main site, South Africa – palaeoenvironmental implications.
- (2016). The Small Mammal Sequence from the c. 76 – 72 ka Still Bay Levels at Blombos Cave, South Africa – Taphonomic and Palaeoecological Implications for Human Behaviour. PLOS ONE.
- (2015). Micromammals, climate change and human behaviour in the Middle Stone Age, southern Cape, South Africa – A case study from the Still Bay levels at Blombos Cave.
- (2013). Micromammals, climate change and human behaviour in the Middle Stone Age, southern Cape, South Africa – Examining the possible links between palaeoenvironments and the cognitive evolution of Homo sapiens.
- (2011). Environmental implications from micromammals accumulated at Klasies River main site, southern Cape, South Africa during MIS 5.
- (2009). Climate and Modern Human Behaviour - A study of the link between climatic change and the cultural evolution of Homo sapiens during the Middle Stone Age in the southern Cape, South Africa.
- (2007). Middle Stone Age palaeoenvironments: A study of faunal material from Blombos Cave, southern Cape, South Africa. Nyame Akuma. 52-61.
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