Vincent Hare is a lecturer in the department and is affiliated with the Stable Light Isotope Laboratory. His research interests span palaeoclimatology, Quaternary palaeoenvironments, dating methods, and the application of stable isotopes to fossil materials, past climate change and the carbon cycle.

He holds degrees in both Physics and Archaeological Sciences from the University of Cape Town and Oxford (MSc, DPhil), where he was Clarendon Scholar.

Hare is currently a member of the American Geophysical Union and the European Geophysical Union, Secretary of the Southern African Society for Quaternary Research, and Past Global Changes (PAGES) Early Career Representative for Africa.

Archaeology Dept, Beattie Building, Room 3.16
Fax: +27 (0)21 650 2352
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More information about the Stable Light Isotope Laboratory
Dr Hare's ResearchGate page, and link to detailed CV.
PAGES profile

Course Convener

• AGE4000W - Archaeology Honours
• AGE1002S - The Human Planet: Prehistory to Present
• AGE4001W - Archaeology & Environmental Science Honours

Publications

J Sealy, N Naidoo, VJ Hare, S Brunton, JT Faith. Climate and ecology of the palaeo-Agulhas Plain from stable carbon and oxygen isotopes in bovid tooth enamel from Nelson Bay Cave, South Africa. Quaternary Science Reviews 235, 105974

Staff, R.A., Hardiman, M., Ramsey, C.B., Adolphi, F., Hare, V.J., Koutsodendris, A. and Pross, J., 2019. Reconciling the Greenland ice-core and radiocarbon timescales through the Laschamp geomagnetic excursion. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 520, pp.1-9

Luyt, J., Hare, V.J. and Sealy, J., 2019. The relationship of ungulate δ13C and environment in the temperate biome of southern Africa, and its palaeoclimatic application, Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology, 514, pp. 282-291

Hare, V.J. and Loftus, E., 2018. Scientific dating methods in African archaeology. Oxford Research Encyclopaedias. DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190277734.013.209

Hare, V.J., Tarduno, J.A., Huffman, T., Watkeys, M., Thebe, P.C., Manyanga, M., Bono, R.K. and Cottrell, R.D., 2018. New archeomagnetic directional records from Iron Age southern Africa (ca. 425–1550 CE) and implications for the South Atlantic Anomaly. Geophysical Research Letters, 45(3), pp.1361-1369

Devièse, T., Van Ham-Meert, A., Hare, V.J., Lundy, J., Hommel, P., Ivanovich Bazaliiskii, V. and Orton, J., 2018. Supercritical Fluids for Higher Extraction Yields of Lipids from Archeological Ceramics. Analytical chemistry, 90(4), pp.2420-2424

Hare, V.J., Loftus, E., Jeffrey, A. and Ramsey, C.B., 2018. Atmospheric CO2 effect on stable carbon isotope composition of terrestrial fossil archives, Nature communications, 9(1), p. 252

Hare, V.J., Kärger, J., Moinester, M. and Piasetzky, E., 2016. Testing the (time) 1/4 diffusion law of rehydroxylation in fired clays: evidence for single-file diffusion in porous media? Diffusion Fundamentals 25 (6)

Hare, V. and Sealy, J., 2013. Middle Pleistocene dynamics of southern Africa's winter rainfall zone from δ13C and δ18O values of Hoedjiespunt faunal enamel. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 374, pp.72-80