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Browsing Anthropology and Archaeology by Type "Article"
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78,000-year-old record of Middle and Later Stone Age innovation in an East African tropical forest (Nature Publishing Group, 2018-05-09)The Middle to Later Stone Age transition in Africa has been debated as a significant shift in human technological, cultural, and cognitive evolution. However, the majority of research on this transition is currently ...
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(Wiley, 2024-01)This article develops on the plenary paper we presented for the second Modern Heritage in the Anthropocene Symposium (MoHoA), held at the Bartlett School of Architecture(UCL) October 26–28, 2022. At the first MOHoA Symposium ...
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(American Anthropological Association, Society for Cultural Anthropology, 2018)I imagine that most anthropologists greeted the crash of September 2008 with a measure of schadenfreude, tempered in many cases by economic pain and anxiety. I retired from the British university system in that month and ...
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(Transvaal Museum, 2013-02)We report on the fauna from the sites of Xaro 1 and Xaro 2 located on the Okavango Delta in northern Botswana. Carbon isotopes from two human graves at Xaro Lodge located approximately 500 m south of Xaro 1 suggest ...
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(South African Archaeological Society, 2013)Baleni is a mineral spring in the South African Lowveld where radiocarbon and ceramic evidence indicates a 2000-year salt-production record. Excavations have found that episodic production during this period closely ...
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(Maney, 2009-11)This article investigates the construction, display and consumption of archaeological authenticity at two museums and two heritage-themed entertainment locales in South Africa. I consider authenticity not simply ...
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(South African Archaeological Society, 2009)This paper presents an analysis of the faunal remains from three farmer or Late Iron Age sites in the Steelpoort River Valley, occupied c. AD 1700–1900 by Ndzundza Ndebele. The Ndzundza were forced, successively, to ...
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(KwaZulu-Natal Museum, 2014-09)Open-air sites are ubiquitous signatures on most archaeological landscapes. When they are appropriately recorded, well-preserved and are single-component occupations, they provide access to high-resolution occupation ...
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(South African Archaeological Society, 2018)In this paper,we document two newAcheulean sites located in alluvial terraces bordering the lower Sundays River, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. These terraces have been the subject of geomorphological studies in ...
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(South African Archaeological Society, 2019-06)It is now history that the transformation efforts initiated by the ‘gang of three’ culminated in the unanimous approval of the Transformation Charter) during the 2008 biannual conference of the Association of Southern ...
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(MDPI Publishing, 2016-07)“Belief” as an analytical tool and critical category of investigation for the study of religion has been a resurging topic of interest. This article discusses the problems of language and practice in the discussion of ...
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(South African Society for Cultural History, 2021-12-01)Narratives about South African industrialisation, especially regarding the mining sector, have not paid adequate attention to small scale (artisanal) mining operations and the communities who worked them. This article ...
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(CSSALL Publishers, 2012)In contemporary public debates regarding the significance of social mobility, new cultures of consumption and the black middle class, the point is often made that Africans living in urban areas before the onset of ...
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(Western Academic & Specialist Press, 2003)The Keep River region has a complex body of engraved and painted rock-art, distinct from but with links to regions to the east, west and south. At least four major periods of figurative rock-art have been identified with ...
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(South African Archaeological Society, 2018-06)Since the current era under my leadership began with the publication of the December 2015 issue of the South African Archaeological Bulletin (SAAB), I have been building the SAAB house, putting nails on its roof (December ...
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(Elsevier, 2022-12)Understanding past water management is crucial to address contemporary human-environmental challenges in sub-Saharan Africa, where urban growth is impacting upon water availability and supply. This study integrates soil ...
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(Routledge, 2016-06)Recent archaeological research has firmly established eastern Africa’s offshore islands as important localities for understanding the region’s pre-Swahili maritime adaptations and early Indian Ocean trade connections. While ...
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(South African Association of Family Ecology and Consumer Sciences, 2007)Die Hananwa is 'n relatief selfversorgende gemeenskap van Tswana-Hurutshe herkoms wat in relatiewe afsondering bo-op Blouberg in die Limpopoprovinsie woonagtig is. As gevolg van hulle af-gesonderdheid is die gemeenskap ...
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(University of Sydney, 2007-03)In remote Aboriginal communities in Australia, researchers cast health beliefs and treatments as belonging to either an Aboriginal or biomedical system, which are considered to be irreconcilable and in conflict. Warlpiri ...
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(Transvaal Museum, 2016)Animals are often attracted to the cultivated gardens of farmers, whowould hunt these pests to protect their crops from damage. This is known as garden hunting. Since the concept of garden hunting was first described more ...
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