Ina Plug

Ina Plug (née Post) (born 5 August 1941) is a South African archaeozoologist (or zooarchaeologist), and teacher.

Following the end of World War II the family had moved to South Africa, traveling on the ship Pretoria Castle in 1949.

[1] In 1976 Plug started working at the newly created Department of Archaeozoology of the Transvaal Museum in Pretoria; initially as a volunteer for a small pay provided under the Liz Voigt research grant, with C.K.

Eloff as her guide, on the subject of "investigations of faunal and lithic remains from Bushman Rock Shelter", Mpumalanga in the northeastern region of South Africa.

[1] The Transvaal Museum, which initially in 1975 had only a small skeletal collection mostly of skulls and skins, was substantially expanded with the joint efforts of Voigt and Plug.

[4] Plug held the post of deputy director at the Transvaal Museum and was also the Head Curator of the Department of Archaeozoology, until she retired in 1999.

[1] Plug's research work has contributed richly to subjects of "faunal quantification, taphonomy, animal distributions, past environments, and modern wildlife.

Dog remains from a site of an Early Iron Age settlement on the farm Diamant near Ellisras were dated to 570 AD.

In 2005, she was made a research fellow in the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology of the University of South Africa and in 2008 was honoured with the status of Professor Extraordinarius.