Biography

Professor Stratford investigates the site formation and stratigraphy of archaeological and palaeoanthropological sites in southern Africa. Most of his work focuses on site formation processes in caves and rock shelters. His work applies a broad suite of multi-scale quantitative and qualitative methods to reconstruct the formation history of deposits that range in age from tens of thousands of years to millions of years. Professor Stratford is the director of research of the Sterkfontein Caves palaeoanthropological site and as part of that work, he coordinates a large international team of specialists working on the diverse archaeological and palaeoanthropological collections from previous and continuing excavations.