People - Staff at Archaeology South-East

Lucy ALLOTT – BSc, MSc, PhD

• Palaeobotanist

Research Interests
• Quaternary environments
• Palaeoenvironmental reconstructions using archaeobotanical remains
• People-environment interactions and Palaeoethnobotany
• Lithic technologies, lithic refitting, site space use, taphonomic processes

Professional Skills
• Sediment and pollen sampling
• Flotation, flot and residue analysis
• Charcoal and macrobotanical analysis
• Incident light and scanning electron microscopy
• Multivariate statistics in SPSS, Enterprise Guide (SAS), XLPRO & MS Excel
• Lithic analysis and artefact curation
• Field walking
• Open area and grid based excavation
• Stratigraphic drawing
• Site planning using EDM total station, theodolite and surveyors level
• Artefact point plotting
• Site and artefact photography

Career Summary
2005 - present - Palaeobotanist & Environmental Archaeologist, Archaeology South-East,
2005 - Contract Researcher, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
2000 - 2002 - Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa (lecture courses in Analytical Methods (Archaeobotany, Stable Isotope Analysis), Human Evolution (South African Stone Age) and Introduction to Archaeology).

Qualifications
• 2005 - Ph.D., School of Geography, Archaeology, and Environmental Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
• 2000 - M.Sc., School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
• 1998 - B.Sc. School of Archaeology, Classics & Oriental Studies, University of Liverpool, Liverpool

Membership of Learned Societies and Professional Recognition
• Member, Southern African Society for Quaternary Research
• Member, Association of Southern African Professional Archaeologists



Recent Publications
Allott, L. in prep. Middle Stone Age charcoal as an indicator of palaeoenvironments in South Africa during the Last Glacial.

Allott, L. in prep. A new database for identifying archaeological charcoal from southern Africa.

Allott, L. in prep. The Howiesons Poort and beyond: charcoal from the Last Interglacial-Glacial cycle at Sibudu Cave.

Allott, L. & Swan, L. in prep. Charcoal from two Late Iron Age smelting sites in Malilangwe, Zimbabwe.

Allott, L. 2004. ‘Vegetation Environments During Oxygen Isotope Stage 3: reconstructions using archaeological charcoal from Sibudu Cave’ South African Journal of Science 100: 179-184