Community-centred frameworks have increasingly become a central focus for
archaeologists and other heritage practitioners in southern Africa. This development in …

The governments in Africa implement various development projects to improve livelihoods.
The projects are both large and small scale. Large-scale projects include construction of …

Contract archaeology (CA) is a relatively new concept in world archaeology. It first became
prominent in the United States five decades ago and in southern Africa four decades ago …

This contribution provides a critical personal reflection on the National Heritage Resources
Act (NHRA) that was signed into law in 1999. It focuses on what its intentions were and …

Despite the significant growth of heritage consultancies in many countries over the last few
decades, there is little scholarship that engages empirically with the experiences of those …

Heritage managers often consider developers to be a threat to irreplaceable heritage
resources, while developers often consider heritage management to be an expensive …

The roots of contract archeology were laid even before the development of a legislative
framework that prescribed the processes to be followed. Contract archeology was being …

In this paper, I measure the damage that urban and industrial development has done to
precolonial stone-walled structures (SWS) in southern Gauteng Province. I do so by …

This paper considers the social impact of the ongoing use of archaeological time categories
that have their roots and meaning in late 19th-century colonial science. It provides a …

South Africa is one of the leading economic powerhouses in the African continent. With its
rising population and the National Development Plan (NDP) aimed at repositioning South …