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  • The applications of fractal geometry and self - similarity to art music 
    Steynberg, Ilse (University of Pretoria, 2014)
    The aim of this research study is to investigate different practical ways in which fractal geometry and self-similarity can be applied to art music, with reference to music composition and analysis. This specific topic was ...
  • Applying Ayittey’s Indigenous African Institutions to generate epistemic plurality in the curriculum 
    Eybers, Oscar Oliver (AOSIS, 2019-06-24)
    BACKGROUND : South Africa’s institutions of higher learning are currently experiencing a dispensation in which calls for curricula transformation and decolonisation reverberate. While the need for ...
  • Applying the international classification of diseases to perinatal mortality data, South Africa 
    Lavin, Tina; Allanson, Emma R.; Nedkoff, Lee; Preen, David B.; Pattinson, Robert Clive (World Health Organization, 2018-12)
    OBJECTIVE : To examine the feasibility of applying the International Classification of Diseases-perinatal mortality (ICD-PM) coding to an existing data set in the classification of perinatal deaths. METHODS : One author, ...
  • Applying Zartman's theory of ripeness to the Zimbabwean conflict : 2000-2009 
    Thusi, Enoch (University of Pretoria, 2015)
    This study applies Zartman's theory of ripeness to the Zimbabwean conflict over the period 2000-2009. According to this theory conflicts can only be resolved when the parties have reached a stalemate and perceived mediation ...
  • Appraising the effectiveness of South Africa’s low-cost housing delivery approach for beneficiaries in uMhlathuze village and Slovos settlement 
    Sabela, Primrose T.; Isike, Christopher (Adonis and Abbey Publishers, 2018-06)
    The question of basic housing for the poor majority of the world’s population remains a festering global development challenge given the plethora of housing delivery models which abound. In South Africa, the Capital Housing ...
  • An appreciative inquiry approach to community theatre on HIV and AIDS education for young people 
    Maritz, Gerrit Ulrich (University of Pretoria, 2010)
    This dissertation positions Community Theatre as an agency for development and education based on the educational principles of Freire and Boal’s Theatre for Development. The dissertation argues that Appreciative Inquiry ...
  • Apprehending global civilisation in The Magic Lamp : giving the world a new literature 
    Gray, Rosemary A. (Routledge, 2020)
    The argument in this article is that Ben Okri’s ekphrastic The Magic Lamp: Dreams of Our Age (London: Apollo, 2017) reveals an ontopoietic or heightened awareness literature of the “imagiNation”, to borrow a neologism from ...
  • The archaeobotany of Mutamba, a thirteenth century Mapungubwe settlement in northern South Africa 
    Steyn, Bianca (University of Pretoria, 2018)
    The focus of this research is on Mutamba, a 13th century Middle Iron Age (MIA) settlement situated in the Soutpansberg, South Africa and is the first archaeobotanical study of a MIA settlement. Many communities of this ...
  • The Archaeofauna from Xaro on the Okavango Delta in northern Botswana 
    Van Zyl, Wynand J.; Badenhorst, Shaw; Taljaard, Elene; Denbow, James R.; Wilmsen, Edwin N. (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 ...
  • An Archaeological and Historical Investigation of 20th Century European Mining Activities on the Farm Berkenrode in the Maremani Nature Reserve, Musina, Limpopo, South Africa. 
    Joubert, Michelle (University of Pretoria, 2019-11-30)
    Musina (Messina), is a small town in far northern South Africa known for its copper mining history. To date, historical narratives about South African industrialisation, especially with regards to the mining sector, have ...
  • Archaeological assessment reveals Earth’s early transformation through land use 
    Stephens, Lucas; Fuller, Dorian; Boivin, Nicole; Rick, Torben; Gauthier, Nicolas; Kay, Andrea; Marwick, Ben; Armstrong, Chelsey Geralda; Barton, C. Michael; Denham, Tim; Douglass, Kristina; Driver, Jonathan; Janz, Lisa; Roberts, Patrick; Rogers, J. Daniel; Thakar, Heather; Altaweel, Mark; Johnson, Amber L.; Vattuone, Maria Marta Sampietro; Aldenderfer, Mark; Archila, Sonia; Artioli, Gilberto; Bale, Martin T.; Beach, Timothy; Borrell, Ferran; Braje, Todd; Buckland, Philip I.; Cano, Nayeli Guadalupe Jiménez; Capriles, Jose M.; Castillo, Agustin Diez; Cilingiroglu, Ciler; Cleary, Michelle Negus; Conolly, James; Coutros, Peter R.; Covey, R. Alan; Cremaschi, Mauro; Crowther, Alison; Der, Lindsay; Di Lernia, Savino; Doershuk, John F.; Doolittle, William E.; Edwards, Kevin J.; Erlandson, Jon M.; Evans, Damian; Fairbairn, Andrew; Faulkner, Patrick; Feinman, Gary; Fernandes, Ricardo; Fitzpatrick, Scott M.; Fyfe, Ralph; Garcea, Elena; Goldstein, Steve; Goodman, Reed Charles; Guedes, Jade Dalpoim; Herrmann, Jason; Hiscock, Peter; Hommel, Peter; Horsburgh, K. Ann; Hritz, Carrie; Ives, John W.; Junno, Aripekka; Kahn, Jennifer G.; Kaufman, Brett; Kearns, Catherine; Kidder, Tristram R.; Lanoe, Francois; Lawrence, Dan; Lee, Gyoung-Ah; Levin, Maureece J.; Lindskoug, Henrik B.; Lopez-Saez, Jose Antonio; Macrae, Scott; Marchant, Rob; Marston, John M.; McClure, Sarah; McCoy, Mark D.; Miller, Alicia Ventresca; Morrison, Michael; Matuzeviciute, Giedre Motuzaite; Muller, Johannes; Nayak, Ayushi; Noerwidi, Sofwan; Peres, Tanya M.; Peterson, Christian E.; Proctor, Lucas; Randall, Asa R.; Renette, Steve; Schug, Gwen Robbins; Ryzewski, Krysta; Saini, Rakesh; Scheinsohn, Vivian; Schmidt, Peter R.; Sebillaud, Pauline; Seitsonen, Oula; Simpson, Ian A.; Soltysiak, Arkadiusz; Speakman, Robert J.; Spengler, Robert N.; Steffen, Martina L.; Storozum, Michael J.; Strickland, Keir M.; Thompson, Jessica; Thurston, T.L.; Ulm, Sean; Ustunkaya, M. Cemre; Welker, Martin H.; West, Catherine; Williams, Patrick Ryan; Wright, David K.; Wright, Nathan; Zahir, Muhammad; Zerboni, Andrea; Beaudoin, Ella; Garcia, Santiago Munevar; Powell, Jeremy; Thornton, Alexa; Kaplan, Jed O.; Gaillard, Marie-Jose; Goldewijk, Kees Klein; Ellis, Erle (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2019-08)
    Environmentally transformative human use of land accelerated with the emergence of agriculture, but the extent, trajectory, and implications of these early changes are not well understood. An empirical global assessment ...
  • Archaeological ceramics from eastern Africa : past approaches and future directions 
    Ashley, Ceri Z.; Grillo, Katherine M. (Routledge, 2015-04)
    Ceramics are an essential part of the Holocene archaeology of eastern Africa and the development of increasingly complex typologies has rightly played a key role in our understanding of chronology and social identity. ...
  • An archaeological identity of the Majimaji : toward an historical archaeology of resistance to German colonization in southern Tanzania 
    Rushohora, N.A. (Nancy) (Springer, 2015-08)
    This paper presents new insights on the Majimaji war, which is one of the least studied topics in Eastern Africa’s colonial history. The Majimaji (1905– 1907) was a large scale war of resistance against German colonial ...
  • An archaeological interpretation of certain iron age sites in the Limpopo/Shashi valley 
    Hanisch, Edwin Oscar Max (University of Pretoria, 1980)
    An archaeological investigation was made of two Iron Age sites on the farms Schroda and Pont Drift. The farms are situated on the southern bank of the Limpopo River, about 65 km and 95 km respectively west of Messina. ...
  • An archaeological investigation into the social structure of a stone-walled site in the North West Province, South Africa 
    Jordaan, Jacqueline (University of Pretoria, 2016)
    This master’s study concerns a Tswana stone-walled site in the North West Province. Within this province, the Zeerust-Rustenburg-Pilanesberg region has been of particular interest to Tswana settlement studies. In this ...
  • An archaeological landscape study of forager and farmer interactions at the Motloutse/Limpopo confluence area South Africa 
    Seiler, Trent Clayton (University of Pretoria, 2016)
    Our understanding of the Later Stone Age on the Greater Mapungubwe Landscape has, until recently, been focused on specific forager camp types, namely shelters. This does not place significance on the range and variability ...
  • Archaeological research on the Kongo kingdom in the Lower Congo region of Central Africa 
    Clist, Bernard; Cranshof, Els; De Maret, Pierre; De Schryver, Gilles-Maurice; Kaumba, Mandela; Matonda, Igor; Nikis, Nicolas; Bostoen, Koen (Antiquity Publications, 2015-10)
    The Kongo kingdom, which arose in Central Africa’s Atlantic coast region, is an emblem of Africa’s past and an important cultural landmark for Africans and the African Diaspora (Figure 1). As a result of its early ...
  • Archaeological salt production at the Baleni Spring, Northeastern South Africa 
    Antonites, Alexander (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 ...
  • An archaeological study of two Early Farming sites in the southern Kruger National Park, South Africa 
    Jordaan, Gerhard (University of Pretoria, 2016)
    This dissertation reports on investigations carried out on two Early Farming Community (AD 250-1000) sites in the eastern Lowveld of South Africa, more specifically the Kruger National Park. During the past 50 years, much ...
  • Archaeology and authenticity in South African heritage locales and public spaces 
    McGhie, Lisa-Maree (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 ...