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Overview

Judith Sealy is affiliated with the University of Cape Town in South Africa. Their research spans multiple fields including Social Sciences, Earth and Planetary Sciences, and Environmental Science. Within these areas, their subfields of focus are Anthropology, Archaeology, Ecology, Paleontology, and Genetics.

Their work covers various main topics, such as Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies, Archaeology and ancient environmental studies, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Forensic and Genetic Research, and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research.

Sealy has published frequently in several well-known academic venues. The notable publication venues where they have contributed multiple articles include PLoS ONE, Scientific Reports, Sustainability, Evolutionary Anthropology Issues News and Reviews, and Current Biology.

Sealy's frequent collaborators include Petrus le Roux, Julie Luyt, Victoria E. Gibbon, Deano D. Stynder, and Ramiro Barberena. These co-authors have worked on various projects with Sealy, reflecting collaborative efforts across interdisciplinary studies.

Some of Sealy's recent published papers are as follows:

  • Palaeoproteomics confirm earliest domesticated sheep in southern Africa ca. 2000 BP, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Multi-isotopic and morphometric evidence for the migration of farmers leading up to the Inka conquest of the southern Andes, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Capitalizing on the Potential of South African Indigenous Beef Cattle Breeds: A Review, 2021, Sustainability
  • Confronting historical legacies of biological anthropology in South Africa-Restitution, redress and community-centered science: The Sutherland Nine, 2023, PLoS ONE
  • Ecosystem engineering in the Quaternary of the West Coast of South Africa, 2021, Evolutionary Anthropology Issues News and Reviews

Best Publications

  • Emergence of modern human behavior: Middle Stone Age engravings from South Africa.

    Christopher S. Henshilwood;Francesco d'Errico;Royden Yates;Zenobia Jacobs

  • Stable carbon isotope ratio differences between bone collagen and bone apatite, and their relationship to diet

    Julia A. Lee-Thorp;Judith C. Sealy;Nikolaas J. van der Merwe;Nikolaas J. van der Merwe

  • Nitrogen isotopic ecology in southern Africa: Implications for environmental and dietary tracing

    Judith C. Sealy;Nikolaas J. van der Merwe;Julia A.Lee Thorp;John L. Lanham

  • Blombos Cave, Southern Cape, South Africa : Preliminary report on the 1992-1999 excavations of the Middle Stone Age levels

    C.S. Henshilwood;J.C. Sealy;R. Yates;K. Cruz-Uribe

  • Beyond lifetime averages: tracing life histories through isotopic analysis of different calcified tissues from archaeological human skeletons

    Judith Sealy;Richard H. Armstrong;Carmel Schrire

  • Dietary reconstruction, mobility, and the analysis of ancient skeletal tissues: Expanding the prospects of stable isotope research in archaeology

    Cheryl A. Makarewicz;Judith Sealy

  • as a dietary indicator in modern and archaeological bone

    J.C. Sealy;N.J. van der Merwe;N.J. van der Merwe;A. Sillen;F.J. Kruger

  • Comparison of two methods of extracting bone collagen for stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis: comparing whole bone demineralization with gelatinization and ultrafiltration

    Judith Sealy;Malia Johnson;Michael P. Richards;Olaf Nehlich

  • Bone artefacts from the Middle Stone Age at Blombos Cave, Southern Cape, South Africa

    Christopher Henshilwood;Judith Sealy

  • Investigating Identity and Life Histories: Isotopic Analysis and Historical Documentation of Slave Skeletons Found on the Cape Town Foreshore, South Africa

    Glenda Cox;Judith Sealy

  • The chronology of the introduction of pastoralism to the Cape, South Africa

    Judith Sealy;Roydien Yates

  • Body tissue chemistry and palaeodiet

    J. Sealy

  • Diet Mobility, and Settlement Pattern Among Holocene Hunter-Gatherers in Southernmost Africa

    Judith Sealy

  • Isotope Assessment and the Seasonal- Mobility Hypothesis in the Southwestern Cape of South Africa1

    Judith C. Sealy;Nikolaas J. van der Merwe

  • Social, spatial and chronological patterning in marine food use as determined by ä 13 C measurements of Holocene human skeletons from the south‐western Cape, South Africa

    J. C. Sealy;N. J. van der Merwe

  • Stable Carbon Isotopes and Prehistoric Diets in the South-Western Cape Province, South Africa

    A. J. B. Humphreys;J. Sealy

  • A novel marine dietary indicator utilising compound-specific bone collagen amino acid δ13C values of ancient humans

    Lorna T. Corr;Judith C. Sealy;Mark C. Horton;Richard P. Evershed

  • A record of rapid Holocene climate change preserved in hyrax middens from southwestern Africa

    B.M. Chase;B.M. Chase;M.E. Meadows;L. Scott;D.S.G. Thomas

  • Chemistry and Paleodietry Research: No More Easy Answers

    Andrew Sillen;Judith C. Sealy;Nikolaas J. van der Merwe

  • Earliest Stone-Tipped Projectiles from the Ethiopian Rift Date to .279,000 Years Ago

    Yonatan Sahle;W. Karl Hutchings;David R. Braun;David R. Braun;Judith C. Sealy

Frequent Co-Authors

Julia A. Lee-Thorp
Julia A. Lee-Thorp University of Oxford
David R. Braun
David R. Braun George Washington University
Daryl Codron
Daryl Codron University of the Free State
Andrew S. Carr
Andrew S. Carr University of Leicester
Arnoud Boom
Arnoud Boom University of Leicester
Christopher S. Henshilwood
Christopher S. Henshilwood University of Bergen
J. Tyler Faith
J. Tyler Faith University of Utah
Paula J. Reimer
Paula J. Reimer Queen's University Belfast
Naomi E. Levin
Naomi E. Levin University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Melanie J. Leng
Melanie J. Leng University of Nottingham

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