• Chicumbane connections : lower Limpopo Valley during the first millennium AD 

  Ekblom, Anneli; Notelid, Michel; Lindahl, Anders; Mtetwa, Ezekia (Springer, 2024-03)

  The discussion of the transition to farming in southern Africa and the formation of Early Iron Age society, referred to in Mozambican archaeology as the Early Farming Communities (EFC), is complicated by the lack of ...
• Exploring barriers to menstrual education between maternal figures and young girls : a pilot study in South Africa 

  Sobudula, Viwe; Naidoo, Dhee (Wiley, 2024-08)

  The study sought to explore barriers to menstrual education between maternal figures and young girls. Menstruation is a key part of the reproductive process and affects young adolescent girls. Menstrual blood is perceived ...
• The birth of Boererate : women and healing during the South African war 

  Blackbeard, Jeanie; McNeill, Fraser G. (NISC (Pty) Ltd and Informa UK Limited (trading as Taylor & Francis Group), 2023-06)

  This article reinterprets historical works on the history of medicine in South Africa and how present-day Afrikaner home-based healing therapies known as Boererate engage with this history. By reinterpreting historical ...
• The disappearing generation and climate change : evidence from Zimbabwe 

  Chiba, Moffat (Sage, 2024-03)

  The passing on of key elderly members of communities is presenting new challenges on the well-being of the natural environment as their disappearance signifies the end of Indigenous Knowledge that had protected the ecological ...
• Macro use-wear identifiers on lithic scrapers and behavioural shifts at Little Muck Shelter, SLCA 

  Sherwood, Nicole Leoni; Forssman, Tim (Elsevier, 2023-06)

  The arrival of farmer groups in southern Africa, from the early first millennium CE, is thought to have influenced forager behavioural patterns. Understanding these behavioural shifts are important not only to examine how ...
• Invigorating interfaith consciousness for the common good : reimagining the role of African religion and Pentecostalism in contemporary South Africa 

  Atabongwoung, Gallous Asong; Lutz, Johannes; Austin, Denise A. (MDPI, 2023-04)

  Contemporary South Africa reflects complex, diverse, and evolving religious realities. Changes continue to manifest at the confluence of encounters between various religions and rapid changes in social institutions that ...
• African epistemologies and ontologies : building a pathway that elevates African ways of constructing the world as part of a future African archaeology 

  Schmidt, Peter R. (Springer, 2023-12)

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• Landscape evolution and hydrology at the Late Pleistocene archaeological site of Narabeb in the Namib Sand Sea, Namibia 

  Stone, Abi; Leader, George; Stratford, Dominic; Marks, Theodore; Efraim, Kaarina; Bynoe, Rachel; Smedley, Rachel; Gunn, Andrew; Marais, Eugene (Elsevier, 2024-06)

  The Namib Sand Sea (NSS) in Namibia is known to preserve a wide variety of Pleistocene-age archaeological sites. However, few Middle Stone Age (MSA) sites in this region have been systematically investigated and basic ...
• To save breakage and inconvenience : rural probate inventories and pewter as an 'evident absent' in 19th-century colonial South Africa 

  Zachariou, Nicholas (KwaZulu-Natal Museum, 2023-10)

  The investigation and analysis of the ceramic assemblage from the 19th-century European farm Kerkplaats, a site in the rural Karoo, Northern Cape, revealed a notable disjuncture in the ratio of hollow to flat forms. This ...
• Making in turbulent times : new insights into late 18th-and early 19th-century ceramic crafts and connectivity in the Magaliesberg region 

  Fredriksen, Per Ditlef; Lindahl, Anders (KwaZulu-Natal Museum, 2023-10)

  Among Simon Hall’s influential contributions to historical archaeology are two research agendas: the need to focus attention on lower scalar levels of analysis, and broadening the concept of ceramic style to include less ...
• Unlearning and relearning fresh produce markets : a study of the social and economic forces that shape the Johannesburg Fresh Produce Market 

  Malungane, Makhanana (University of Pretoria, 2023)

  The Johannesburg Fresh Produce Market (JFPM) is the largest fresh produce market in Africa, in terms of volume and turnover, and plays a central role in making fresh produce accessible across Gauteng and surrounding areas ...
• Covid-19 infection as ritual process in Venda, South Africa 

  McNeill, Fraser G. (NISC (Pty) Ltd and Informa UK Limited (trading as Taylor & Francis Group), 2024)

  This article offers an ethnographic account of Covid-19 infection in Venda, South Africa. During July 2021, a research interlocutor and I tested positive for the virus and embarked on a 10-day period of isolation together. ...
• Community-based approaches in the construction and management of water infrastructures among the Chagga, Kilimanjaro, Tanzania 

  Silayo, Valence M.; Pikirayi, Innocent (MDPI, 2023-03)

  Water management among the Chagga people of Kilimanjaro has involved community collaboration in the construction, ownership and management of water infrastructures. Since the second half of the secondmillenniumAD, the ...
• Street traders’ contribution to food security : lessons from fresh produce traders’ experiences in South Africa during Covid-19 

  Wegerif, M.C.A. (Marc) (Springer, 2024-02)

  Street traders play a key role in the food system in South Africa and many other countries. Despite their importance, the operations of street traders are not well understood and often undermined by policy makers and ...
• Consumptive and non-consumptive uses of water beetles (Aquatic coleopterans) in sub-Saharan traditional rituals 

  Mnisi, Lucky Nhlanhla; Zondi, Nompumelelo B.; Pikirayi, Innocent (MDPI, 2023-09)

  The use of wild animals in customary rituals and as a sustenance resource is a longstanding tradition within sub-Saharan Africa. The emergence of commercial trade, has, however, created unattainable demands and has led ...
• The unfinished promise of infrastructure in post-apartheid South Africa 

  Roper, Katherine (Wiley, 2024)

  This article explores aspects of the “unfinished” using notions of human-centered design in African public infrastructure and the importance of involving the “users” and “beneficiaries” in infrastructure development and ...
• Assessing the effectiveness of government and non-governmental organization in assisting internally displaced women in Nigeria 

  Bamidele, Seun; Pikirayi, Innocent (Wiley, 2023-07)

  MOTIVATION : There is scant information on support systems for internally displaced persons in Nigeria, and none on internally displaced women in the New Kuchingoro camp. This limits the operations of aid agencies and ...
• Walking as embodied research : coloniality, climate change, and the 'arts of noticing' 

  Shepherd, Nicholas (Sage, 2023-03)

  ‘Walking is the speed for noticing….’ In 2014, I began convening walking seminars together with the researcher Christian Ernsten and the documentary photographer Dirk-Jan Visser. Each seminar involves a mix of scholars, ...
• Evaluating essential micronutrient content, sensory acceptability & economic viability of formulated sesame (Sesamum indicum), pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum) & groundnut (Arachis hypogea) food blend 

  Marongwe, Farai Desire; Masamha, Blessing; Nyakudya, T; Mandumbu, Ronald; Kamota, Agather; Nyamadzawo, George (University of Kassel, 2023-11)

  Food blending involving legumes and cereals that has been widely explored, however, there is a paucity of evidence of the use of ‘neglected crops’ such as sesame oil seed in complementing cereals and legumes to alleviate ...
• The myth of being modern : digital machines and the loss of discovery 

  Smuts, Carson (Wiley, 2024-01)

  ‘Digitization’ is a logical operation that deconstructs information and transforms it into digits, rendering it a logical construct. Digital operations are fast, infinitely replicable, objective, and absolute. But digitization ...

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