Leon Jacobson

Region of Interest	Africa
Primary Country of Residence	South Africa
Title	Dr
Affiliation	Honorary Research Fellow, The School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
Email	lj.heritage@gmail.com
Mailing Address	P.O. Box 2844 Sasolburg 1947 South Africa
Phone/Fax Number(s)	phone: 27-016-971-4255 cell; 083-389-8647
Websites	http://www.museumsnc.co.za/arcometr.htm
Countries of Specialization	Southern Africa
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; heritage and museums studies.
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.
Keywords	archaeology ; precolonial trade ; iron Age pottery ; hunter-gatherers ; pastoralism.