A5043106915- Archaeology and Rock Art Studies
- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage
- Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation
- Conservation Techniques and Studies
- South African History and Culture
- Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies
- Archaeological Research and Protection
- Museums and Cultural Heritage
- Building materials and conservation
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- African history and culture studies
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
- Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction
- Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy
- Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
- Historical and Archaeological Studies
- Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis
- Spatial Cognition and Navigation
- Pelvic and Acetabular Injuries
- Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration
- Abdominal Surgery and Complications
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
Newcastle University
2011-2024
University of the Witwatersrand
2013-2021
University of Newcastle Australia
2003-2009
Iziko Museums of South Africa
1999
Umkhuseli Innovation and Research Management
1993-1997
University of Cape Town
1981
Thousands of Neolithic and Bronze Age open-air rock art panels exist across the countryside in northern England. However, desecration, pollution, other factors are threatening survival these iconic stone monuments. Evidence suggest that rates panel deterioration may be increasing, although it is not clear whether this due to local or wider environmental influences accelerated by change. To examine question, 18 with varied motifs were studied at two major locations Lordenshaw Weetwood Moor...
As Rosenfeld & Smith report in this number of ANTIQUITY, the reconciliation conventional chronologies for rock-art with emergent radiocarbon-based dates is not proving an easy affair. Here are first steps classic area San hunter-gatherer art, on South Africa/Lesotho border.
Abstract Taking the Clanwilliam District in south‐western Cape as a case study, this paper examines implications of differences composition contemporary tool assemblages from restricted area. A breakdown eleven sites is presented, with analyses occurrences adzes, bored stones, scrapers, and backed pieces at each them. In some situations, patterning type variability site to can clearly be shown associated resource distributions region. Should these resources change, authors argue, patterns...
<title>Abstract</title> The Middle Stone Age (MSA) of southern Africa is mainly known from rock shelters and caves. How early modern humans interacted with their landscapes remains comparatively understudied. site Jojosi 1, situated north Nquthu in central KwaZulu-Natal, set within erosional badlands, locally as “dongas.” This locality offers a rare opportunity to study MSA technology settlement dynamics an open-air context. A. Mazel initially discovered excavated 1 1991, but did not publish...
History and Ideology The basic premise of this paper is that history not a set facts about the past but, rather, ideas held in present. If truism, it one widely reflected discourse practice professional historians, for reason worth elaborating. Ideas are based on 'evidence', whether form written documents, recorded oral evidence, or archaeological remains, which survives from past, but they derive their particular very much producer history, i.e. historian archaeologist, carries his her mind...
AbstractAbstractThis article explores the abundance of rock art in Didima Gorge where 3,909 paintings were documented seventeen shelters. It is proposed that richness gorge's associated with its acoustic properties, which may have established gorge as a significant spiritual place for San hunter-gatherers. In making this correlation, Pager's (1971) comment Zulu name means “The Reverberating One.” word “Didima” be an adaptation the/Xam “!gum” meaning “to roar” (P.E. Raper, 2010, personal...
A further contribution on art, history and archaeological attitude in South Africa.
Abstract Northumberland has a long history of public engagement surrounding its ancient rock-art. Recent advances in digital technologies have enabled archaeologists to enrich this through the provision open access substantial rock-art datasets online. Building on these achievements, Rock Art Mobile Phones (RAMP) project allows Northumberland's countryside visitors situ interpretation at three areas their mobile phones. During RAMP co-experience workshops it emerged that key issues expected...