• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• Foragers and trade at Little Muck Shelter, middle Limpopo Valley 

  Barnard, Chanté (University of Pretoria, 2024-07-29)

  Southern African trade has primarily been examined through farmer archaeological sequences. One reason for this approach is that trade opportunities along the East African coastline, and the subsequent appearance of trade ...
• 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)

  No abstract available.
• 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 ...
• From the Camps to Covid : an ethnographic history of Boererate amongst Afrikaans women 

  Blackbeard, Jeanie (University of Pretoria, 2023-12-21)

  In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Afrikaans women in South Africa harnessed the power of Boererate not only as a healing tradition but as a living, adaptive agent with the ability to connect people and subtly reshape ...
• The stone tool sequence at little muck shelter, middle Limpopo valley : pre- and post-contact forager technologies 

  Pentz, Justin (University of Pretoria, 2023-08-31)

  The Later Stone Age of the middle Limpopo Valley is known through several excavated shelters and subsequent lithic analyses. Scholars have argued that it demonstrates a series of changes that appear linked to shifts in the ...
• 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. ...

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