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Carmel Schrire is a professor of anthropology at Rutgers University. She was born in Cape Town, South Africa and completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Cape Town. Her early research interests where in prehistoric archaeology, doing her doctoral research in the Northern Territory, Australia, on the way in which modern Aboriginal behaviour can help interpret prehistoric remains. She received her PhD in 1968 from the Australian National University. In 1984 she initiated a program in the historical archaeology of European contact and settlement at the Cape region in South Africa. Her 1995 book Digging through Darkness. Chronicles of an Archaeologist explores the dehumanizing effects of colonialism and racism on both colonized and colonizer. In 2004, she excavated the house of the Last Jew of Auschwitz in Oswiecim, Poland.

Journals

• Schrire, Carmel; William Lee Steiger (1974). "A matter of life and death: an investigation into the practice of female infanticide in the Arctic". Man: the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Society 9: 162.

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