Complex sentence: Hilary John Deacon, born 1936 in Cape Town, is the retired Professor of Archaeology at the University of Stellenbosch in Stellenbosch, South Africa, specialising in the "emergence of modern humans" and African archaeology.
Split into simpler sentences: Hilary John Deacon, born 1936 in Cape Town, is the retired Professor of Archaeology at the University of Stellenbosch in Stellenbosch, South Africa. His research focuses on the "emergence of modern humans" and African archaeology.