Carmel Schrire

Carmel Schrire (born 15 May 1941)^[1] is a professor of anthropology at Rutgers University whose research focuses on historical archaeology, particularly in South Africa and Europe.

Education and research

Schrire was born in

• "Oakhurst: A Re-Examination and Vindication" (1962)
• "A Matter of Life and Death: An Investigation into the Practice of Female Infanticide in the Arctic" (1974) (with William Lee Steigner, Man: the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Society 9:162)
• "An Inquiry into the Evolutionary Status and Apparent Identity of San Hunter-Gatherers" (1980) (Human Ecology 8:1)
• "An Analysis of Human Behaviour and Animal Extinctions in South Africa and Australia in Late Pleistocene Times" (1980)
• "Hunter-Gatherers in Africa" (1980)
• "The Alligator Rivers: Prehistory and Ecology in Western Arnhem Land" (1982)
• "Burkitt's Milestone" (1986) (with Janette Deacon)
• "Past and Present in Hunter Gatherer Studies" (1986)
• "The Indigenous Artefacts from Oudepost I, a Colonial Outpost of the VOC at Saldanha Bay, Cape (1989) (with Janette Deacon)
• "The Chronology of Oudepost I, Cape, as Inferred from an Analysis of Clay Pipes" (1990)
• "Excavating Archives at Oudepost I, Cape" (1990)
• "Reply to Wilson, van Rijssen, Jacobson and Noli" (1990)
• "The Beads from Oudepost I, a Dutch East India Company Outpost, Cape, South Africa" (1991)
• "Is the Penn Mightier than the Shovel?: A Sally to a Riposte" (1991)
• "Analysis of Faunal Remains from Oudepost I, an Early Outpost of the Dutch East India Company, Cape Province" (1991)
• "The Archaeological Identity of Hunters and Herders at the Cape over the last 2000 Years: A Critique" (1992)
• "Coins, Gaming Counters and a Bale Seal from Oudepost, Cape" (1992)
• "Cheap Shots, Long Shots and a River in Egypt: A Reply to Whitelaw et al." (1992)
• "The Site History of the Historical Site at Oudepost I, Cape" (1993)
• "An Historic Skeleton from the Slave Lodge at Vergelegen" (1993)
• "The Historical Archaeology of Vergelegen, an Early Farmstead at the Cape of Good Hope" (1995)
• "Beyond Lifetime Averages: Tracing Life Histories Through Isotopic Analysis of Different Calcified Tissues from Archaeological Human Skeletons" (1995) (with Judith Sealy and Richard Armstrong)
• "Petrography of Locally Produced Pottery from the Dutch Colonial Cape of Good Hope, South Africa" (1999) (with S. C. Jordan and D. Miller)
• "Stable Carbon and Nitrogen Isotopic Analysis of the Underclass at the Colonial Cape of Good Hope in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries" (2001) (with Glenda Cox and Judith Sealy)
• "The Conciliators: Bushmania and the Nightmare of Survival" (2003)
• "Reply to Morris et al.'s Critique of the Review by Carmel Schrire of Julia Martin's A Millimetre of Dust: Visiting Ancestral Sites" (2010)
• "Hilary John Deacon: Archaeologist (1936-2010)" (2010)

Books

• Digging through Darkness: Chronicles of an Archaeologist (1995)
• Tigers in Africa: Stalking the Past at the Cape of Good Hope (2002)

References