Southernmost Africa (here meaning South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland) provides an
excellent opportunity for investigating the relations between farming, herding and hunting …

The Nature of Heritage: The New South Africa is unique in revealing the conflicts inherent in
preserving both natural and cultural heritage, by examining the archaeological …

Abstract The Southern African Human Genome Programme is a national initiative that
aspires to unlock the unique genetic character of southern African populations for a better …

Recent archaeological research has identified a widespread southern African rock art
tradition that materially affects the debate over what archaeology can tell us about prehistory …

As the exception on the continent, southern Africa has no Neolithic period. In the 1920s,
when the term came to mean Stone Age with food production, Neolithic was dropped in …

This article reviews the recent history of the archaeology of African hunter-gatherers,
focusing on debates around the origins of modern humans and the destiny of hunter …

Olieboomspoort is one of the few rock shelters in the vast interior of southern Africa
documenting pulses of occupation from the Acheulean until the end of the Later Stone Age …

A radical reassessment of the importance of women in East-Central African society during
the precolonial period. This study of more than two thousand years of African social history …

This study examines mid-to late Holocene Later Stone Age archaeological residues–
specifically flaked stone artefacts, ostrich eggshell beads and pottery–from Namaqualand …

Excavations at the site of Bosutswe on the eastern edge of the Kalahari Desert in Botswana
have uncovered over 4m of deposit ranging in age from CE 700 to 1700. Our research has …