The rise of complex societies in the Limpopo Valley has received much attention over the years. The development and functioning of socio-political centres, such as Mapungubwe, has been the chief focus. Mapungubwe elite are ...

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 ...

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 ...

Le6 and Le7 are Early Iron Age settlements located in north-eastern South Africa in the Kruger National Park. These two open-air sites, immediately adjacent to one another on the west bank of the Letaba River, likely date ...

Shell disc beads (SDB) are some of the earliest ornaments made by humans, and are frequently found in the archaeological record of both hunter-gatherer and farming (Iron Age) societies in South Africa. Despite being one ...

This study sets out to reclaim the ontological epistemology of Saint Thomas Aquinas which serves as a unifier of knowledge in being, within the philosophical milieu of being’s forgottenness. Post-Humean and Kantian thought ...

This dissertation addresses various aspects of the question “What does it mean to be human?”, approaching the issue from biological, philosophical and ethical perspectives. The discussion focuses primarily on the philosophical ...