Turid Hillestad Nel
Position
Postdoctoral Fellow
Affiliation
- turid.nel@uib.no
- Phone number
- +47 55582056
- Visitor address
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Øysteins gate 3
5007 Bergen - Postal address
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P.O. Box 7805NO-5020 BergenNorway
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Turid Hillestad Nel
Position
Postdoctoral Fellow
Affiliation
Research
I analyse small mammals, which become incorporated into archaeological sediments, in order to reconstruct local palaeoenvironments. Small mammals are rodents such as mice, shrews, golden moles, bats, mole rats, gerbils etc. These rodents are suitable palaeoenvironmental proxies as they are spatio-temporally constrained, have small home-ranges (usually less than 1 km radius), precise ecological requirements and t they often exhibit high intrinsic rates of population increase facilitating rapid response to environmental change within fine spatiotemporal scales.
Publications
2023
- Haaland, Magnus Mathisen; Nel, Turid Hillestad (2023). Blombos Cave, South Africa. (external link)
- Nel, Turid Hillestad; Haaland, Magnus Mathisen (2023). Klipdrift Shelter, South Africa. (external link)
- Nel, Turid Hillestad; Peters, Carli; Richter, Kristine K. et al. (2023). Peptide mass fingerprinting as a tool to assess micromammal biodiversity in Pleistocene South Africa: The case of Klipdrift Shelter. (external link)
2022
- Bentsen, Silje Evjenth; Nel, Turid Hillestad (2022). From lab to kitchen: teaching experimental archaeology during lock-down. (external link)
- Bentsen, Silje Evjenth; Haaland, Magnus Mathisen; Milic, Jovana et al. (2022). Pilot fires: Preliminary Report from Interdisciplinary Actualistic Fire Experiments. (external link)
2021
- Nel, Turid Hillestad; Henshilwood, Christopher Stuart (2021). The 100,000–77,000‑Year Old Middle Stone Age Micromammal Sequence from Blombos Cave, South Africa: Local Climatic Stability or a Tale of Predator Bias?. (external link)
- Nel, Turid Hillestad (2021). Will it burn? Micromammal bone in four fire experiments. (external link)
- Matthews, Thalassa; Nel, Turid Hillestad (2021). The cryptic case of Otomys sloggetti (Sloggett’s vlei rat): Interpreting murid molar morphology in the fossil record. (external link)
2020
2019
- Nel, Turid Hillestad (2019). Small mammals from the Still Bay levels at Blombos Cave, South Africa. (external link)
- Nel, Turid Hillestad (2019). Palaeoenvironments and human adaptations – analyses of micromammals from Howiesons Poort sequences in the southern Cape, South Africa . (external link)
- Nel, Turid Hillestad; Van Niekerk, Karen Loise; Henshilwood, Christopher (2019). Local environmental context of the Howiesons Poort sequence at Klipdrift Shelter, South Africa . (external link)
- Nel, Turid Hillestad; Bentsen, Silje Evjenth (2019). Fra tegnerens hule: Blombos Cave, moderne mennesker og symboler . (external link)
2018
- Nel, Turid Hillestad (2018). Environmental context of the Middle Stone Age sequence at Blombos Cave, South Africa. (external link)
- Nel, Turid Hillestad; Henshilwood, Christopher (2018). Environmental context of the lower Middle Stone Age sequence at Blombos Cave, South Africa. (external link)
- Nel, Turid Hillestad; Wurz, Sarah Jacoba Deborah; Henshilwood, Christopher (2018). Small mammals from Marine Isotope Stage 5 at Klasies River, South Africa - Reconstructing the local palaeoenvironment. (external link)
2016
- Nel, Turid Hillestad; Henshilwood, Christopher (2016). The Small Mammal Sequence from the c. 76 – 72 ka Still Bay Levels at Blombos Cave, South Africa – Taphonomic and Palaeoecological Implications for Human Behaviour. (external link)
- Nel, Turid Hillestad (2016). The small mammal sequence from Marine Isotope Stage 5 at Klasies River main site, South Africa – palaeoenvironmental implications.. (external link)