My research at the University of Bergen uses the chemistry of archaeological marine shells using clumped isotope analysis, to assess seasonality in shellfish foraging by reconstructing near-shore sea surface temperatures. This work links with research at the Centre for Early Sapiens Behaviour (SapienCE) to provide an archaeological context to cooking techniques of shellfish during the Middle Stone Age interval at Blombos Cave.

2025

• Pryor, E. J., Hall, I. R., Simon, M. H., Andersen, M., Babin, D., Starr, A., Lipp, A., and van der Lubbe, H.J.L. 2025. Geochemical - mineralogical constraints on the provenance of sediment supplied from South African river catchments draining into the southwestern Indian Ocean. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. (DOI: 10.1029/2024GC011869)
• Purcell, K., Simon, M.H., Pryor, E.J., Armitage, S., van der Lubbe, H.J.L., and Jansen, E. 2025. Climate variability off Africa’s southern Cape over the past 250 ka. Climate of the Past.

2024

• Pryor, E. J., Tangunan, D., van der Lubbe, H. J. L., Simon, M. H. and Hall, I. R. 2024. Recommended centrifuge method: specific grain size separation in the <63 µm fraction of marine sediments. MethodsX 12, article number: 102718. (DOI: 10.1016/j.mex.2024.102718)