Leon Jacobson (McGregor Museum, Kimberley, South Africa)

Submitted: Thurs, 21 August 2003


Leon Jacobson
Assistant Director
McGregor Museum
P.O. Box 316
8300
Kimberley
South Africa

phone:  27-053-839-2703
fax:    27-053-842-1433
E-mail: jake@museumsnc.co.za


Web site: http://www.museumsnc.co.za/arcometr.htm



Research interests: 
Archaeometry and archaeology: pre-colonial trade and exchange by means of
provenance studies on herder and Iron Age pottery;  Later Stone Age
(Khoisan) hunter-gatherers and the transition to pastoralism; miscellaneous
geochemical studies on archaeological materials including rock art paint,
glass beads, sediments, etc.

Recent publications:

Jacobson, L. & van der Westhuizen, W. 2002. The chemical composition of the
Schroda clay figurines. In: van Schalkwyk, J.A. & Hanisch, E.O.M. (eds.)
Sculptured in clay: Iron Age figurines from Schroda, Limpopo Province, South
Africa: 41-45. Pretoria: National Cultural History Museum.

Jacobson, L., van der Westhuizen, W.A. & Oosthuysen, J. 2002. SARM 69
Ceramic-1: a new pottery certified reference material for inter- and
intra-laboratory calibration. In: Jerem, E. & Biro, K.T. (eds.) Archaeometry
98. Proceedings of the 31st International Symposium on Archaeometry,
Budapest, 26 April - 3 May 1998: 585-586. Oxford: Archaeopress BAR
International Series 1043 (II).

Jacobson, L., van der Westhuizen, W.A. & Morris, D. 2002. XRF analysis of
Type R pottery from the Riet River area, Northern Cape, South Africa. In:
Jerem, E. & Biro, K.T. (eds.) Archaeometry 98. Proceedings of the 31st
International Symposium on Archaeometry, Budapest, 26 April - 3 May 1998:
581-583. Oxford: Archaeopress BAR International Series 1043 (II).

Jacobson, L., Loock, J.C., van der Westhuizen, W.A., Huffman, T.N. & Dreyer,
J.J.B. 2003. The occurrence of vitrified dung from the Kamdeboo district,
southern Karoo and Den Staat, Limpopo Valley, South Africa. South African
Journal of Science 99:26-28.

Jacobson, L., De Bruiyn, H. & Van der Westhuizen, W.A. 2002. Comments on:
"Precolonial exchange between the Eastern Free State and KwaZulu-Natal: the
evidence from Rose Cottage Cave ceramics". South African Journal of Science
98:102.

Jacobson, L., Fish, W.S. & Van der Westhuizen, W.A. 2002. XRF analysis of
pottery from Mutokolwe, a Khami settlement from the Soutpansberg mountains,
South Africa. In: Glascock, M. (ed.) Geochemical Evidence for Long Distance
Exchange: 215-228. Westport, Connecticut: Bergin & Garvey.

Jacobson, L., De Bruiyn, H. & van der Westhuizen, W.A. 2002. Rose Cottage
Cave ceramics. South African Journal of Science 98:340.