• The design and implementation of a new travelling museum initiative to bring heritage to people in Southern Africa 

  Forssman, Tim; Van Heerden, Justine (Routledge, 2025)

  Traditional museums are faced with many challenges in Africa. One of these is the public's ability to access museum collections as well as heritage sites. This problem is worsened where physical barriers, such as distance, ...
• Preliminary analysis of forager stone technology at Little Muck Shelter : pre- to contact levels 

  Pentz, Justin; Sherwood, Nicole L.; Forssman, Tim (AOSIS, 2024-08-30)

  Studies into the Later Stone Age sequence of the Mapungubwe region show several important changes in forager toolkits. Notable shifts include the appearance of ceramics, glass beads and metal, and changes in stone tool ...
• Overview of the Early Iron Age in the Letaba region of the Kruger National Park 

  Antonites, Alexander (AOSIS, 2024-08-30)

  Archaeological research carried out in the Kruger National Park has identified several settlements of early African farmers that date to the Early Iron Age (EIA) – c. AD 200 – AD 1000. Two large EIA settlements, Le6 and ...
• Geochemical characterisation of archaeological sites in Mapungubwe National Park, South Africa 

  Nxumalo, Bongumenzi; Sulas, Federica; Pikirayi, Innocent (AOSIS, 2024-08-30)

  Research projects in the Shashe-Limpopo Basin have witnessed significant developments in the use of conceptual frameworks and multidisciplinary approaches such as electrochemical and geochemical sequencing. Accordingly, ...
• Celebrating cultural heritage within national parks 

  Ndlovu, Ndukuyakhe (AOSIS, 2024-08)

  The South African National Parks (SANParks) has a long, rich, and well-decorated history regarding the management of biodiversity in the country. It has an unparalleled status as a leading biodiversity agency in Africa. ...
• Multilingualism at the crossroads of Africa : a response to commentaries on “Remaking Late Holocene Environment of Western Uganda : Kansyore and Later Settlers in the Ndali Crater Lakes Region” 

  Schmidt, Peter R.; Walz, Jonathan R.; Besigye, Jackline N.; Krigbaum, John; Oteyo, Gilbert (Springer, 2024-12)

  No abstract available.
• Glass finds from the elite House of Roue, a Sasanian building in western Iran : composition and classification using XRF and Raman spectroscopy 

  Koleini, Farahnaz; Colomban, Philippe; Sani, Narges D.; Niakan, Lily (MDPI, 2024-11)

  The Silk Road connected the east of Iran to the western world. Roue city is close to the Road. Six glass samples from Roue were classified on the basis of morphology, archaeological context and compositions. The samples ...
• Conceptualizing intra-household gender roles and power dynamics within the cassava food value chains : lessons from qualitative evidence among Tanzanian smallholder farmers 

  Masamha, Blessing; Uzokwe, Veronica N.E; Thebe, Vusilizwe (African Scholary Science Communications Trust, 2024)

  Most subsistence crops that fall in low-value chains, such as cassava, are controlled mainly by women; hence, intra-household gender roles and power dynamics are complex and depend on socio-economic and cultural contexts. ...
• Disseminating archaeological heritage knowledge for development in Africa with special reference to Zimbabwe 

  Shenjere-Nyabezi, Plan; Pwiti, Gilbert; Sagiya, Munyaradzi Elton (Sage, 2024-10)

  In recent years, culture has gained recognition as a vital element in sustainable development efforts, both globally through the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and in Africa through the African Union’s Vision 2063. ...
• Monsoon as method 

  Bremner, Lindsay; Cullen, Beth; Cane, Jonathan; Geros, Christina (Sage, 2024-04)

  This paper is a reflective discussion of the research method developed by a small research team over a 5-year period as it intra-acted with the south Asian monsoon in three south/southeast Asian cities. It reflects on ...
• The playful Karoo : translating a South African story into the metaverse 

  Hayes, Andrea (Routledge, 2024)

  This research paper explores different game design methodologies that can be used to translate the South African novel Souvenir by Jane Rosenthal, set in the semi-desert region known as the Karoo into a Virtual Reality ...
• Foragers downstream of Mapungubwe : the cultural sequence and chronology of Skirbeek Shelter, South Africa 

  Forssman, Tim; Antonites, Alexander; Ashley, Ceri Z.; Pentz, Justin; Scott, Karin; Woodborne, Stephan M. (Routledge, 2024)

  In recent decades, interest in the Later Stone Age of the Mapungubwe region has increased. Here, we present the results of an investigation from a shelter downstream from Mapungubwe called Skirbeek. The shelter is in a ...
• Remaking the late Holocene environment of western Uganda : archaeological perspectives on Kansyore and later settlers 

  Schmidt, Peter R.; Walz, Jonathan R.; Besigye, Jackline N.; Krigbaum, John; Oteyo, Gilbert; Lejju, Julius B.; Asiimwe, Raymond; Ehret, Christopher; Crowther, Alison; Mwebi, Ogeto; Dunne, Julie; Schmidt, Jane; Okeny, Charles; Niwahereza, Amon; Yeko, Doreen; Bermudez, Katie; Echoru, Isaac (Springer, 2024-07-09)

  Archaeological and environmental research by an international and interdisciplinary team opens new perspectives into the settlement histories of Kansyore, Early Iron Age, and Bigo period peoples in the once forested ...
• Ostrich eggshell beads : hole drilling technology at Little Muck Shelter, South Africa 

  Sherwood, Nicole Leoni; Forssman, Tim (Elsevier, 2024-12)

  Ostrich eggshell beads (OES) are commonly found in forager sites across sub-Saharan Africa. Although they have received a reasonable amount of investigation, the drilling technology used to perforate OES beads has received ...
• Power relations in optimisation of therapies and equity in access to antibiotics (PROTEA) study : investigating the intersection of socio-economic and cultural drivers on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and its influence on healthcare access and health-providing behaviours in India and South Africa 

  Charani, Esmita; Dlamini, Sipho; Koch, Anastasia; Singh, Sanjeev; Hodes, Rebecca; Laxminarayan, Ramanan; Batheja, Deepshikha; Ramugondo, Elelwani; Mukherjee, Arunima Sehgal; Mendelson, Marc (F1000 Research Ltd, 2024-07)

  Across social structures within society, including healthcare, power relations manifest according to gender, socioeconomic status, race, ethnicity, and class influencing infection related healthcare access and health ...
• A tapestry of human-induced and climate-driven environmental change in western Uganda : the Ndali Crater Lakes Region 

  Schmidt, Peter R.; Walz, Jonathan R.; Besigye, Jackline N.; Lejju, Julius B. (Cambridge University Press, 2024-03)

  Recent archaeological and paleoenvironmental research in the Ndali Crater Lakes Region (NCLR) of western Uganda provide important new insights into anthropogenic impacts on moist forests to the East of the Rwenzori Mountains. ...
• Die metaalbewerkers van Phalaborwa 

  Pistorius, Julius Cornelius (University of Pretoria, 1989)

  English: In a regional survey in an area around Loolekop which represents the central carbonatite pipe of the Palabora Igneous Complex, about fifty historical known sites were identified and divided into three groups ...
• 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 ...

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