JAMES SIMPSON BRINK 28 November 1957 - 23 September 2019

摘要

Dr James Simpson Brink was first appointed as a junior researcher in archaeozoology at the National Museum Bloemfontein in 1983. In the following year, 1984, James took over from Dr Ron Clarke to lead an interdisciplinary palae-oenvironmental research unit at the museum's Quaternary Research Station at Florisbad. With missionary zeal, James not only began an in-depth study of the archaeozoology of the Florisbad Spring and Living Floor Assemblages which represent the type site of the Florisian Land Mammal Age, but also initiated the expansion of an extensive vertebrate osteological reference collection in what would eventually grow into a world-class research collection for students and scientists alike.