Ceramics are an essential part of the Holocene archaeology of eastern Africa and
the development of increasingly complex typologies has rightly played a key role in
our understanding of chronology and social identity. ...
Joubert, Michelle; Antonites, Alexander; Ashley, Ceri Z.(South African Society for Cultural History, 2021-12-01)
Narratives about South African industrialisation, especially regarding the mining sector, have not paid adequate attention to small scale (artisanal) mining operations and the communities who worked them. This article ...
Animals are often attracted to the cultivated gardens of farmers, whowould hunt these pests to protect their crops from
damage. This is known as garden hunting. Since the concept of garden hunting was first described more ...
Vryheid (MNR04) is a small, isolated Late Iron Age homestead dated
between the 18th and 19th centuries, located in northern South Africa.
During excavations in 2014, a carved ivory artefact was exposed on
the floor of ...
Holocene foragers in southern Africa were mobile, stone-tool-using, hunting and gathering communities that lived in rock shelters and in the open in temporary campsites. From the early 1st millennium a.d., farmer groups ...
