Dr Chrissie Sievers

Function
Lecturer

My experiments with the burning and trampling of sedges and grasses helped to identify Middle Stone Age bedding materials and site maintenance at Sibudu Cave. Other experiments have involved the burning of fresh and dried plant material and the investigation of the effect of different substrates on below ground heat conduction. My present research is directed at the processing and use of marula and how this may be identified in the archaeological record.