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Anthropology, Archaeology and Development Studies: Recent submissions
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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. ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(Springer, 2023-12)No abstract available.
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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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