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Cloaked in Mystery
Date: Tue, 13/10/2020 - 18:30
By: John Parkington and Andy Paterson
Western Cape
Cloaked in Mystery

A rock art talk about paintings of karosses in the Western Cape by Professor John Parkington and Andy Paterson.
Will include use of the recently launched virtual rock art tours of Sevilla and Warmhoek trails.
Coastal occupation and foraging during the Last Glacial Maximum and Early Holocene at Waterfall Bluff, eastern Pondoland, South Africa
Date: Tue, 08/09/2020 - 18:30
By: Dr Erich Fisher
Western Cape
Coastal occupation and foraging during the Last Glacial Maximum and Early Holocene at Waterfall Bluff, eastern Pondoland, South Africa
How the west has changed: Late Mio-Pliocene marine mammal fauna from South Africa’s west coast
Date: Tue, 11/08/2020 - 18:30
By: Romala Govender
Western Cape
How the west has changed: Late Mio-Pliocene marine mammal fauna from South Africa’s west coast
 
Romala Govender, Curator Cenozoic Palaeontology, Iziko Museums of South Africa, Cape Town, South Africa
 
A lost world: how marine geoscience reveals submerged and extinct palaeolandscapes
Date: Tue, 14/07/2020 - 18:30
By: Hayley Cawthra
Western Cape
With significant advances in marine geophysical mapping methods in recent years, geologists are able to use sophisticated technology to map the seafloor at a resolution – with certain instruments – to within a decimetre.
Wonderwerk Cave: An Update on New Research
Date: Tue, 09/06/2020 - 18:30 to 19:30
By: Michael Chazan, University of Toronto
Western Cape
Wonderwerk Cave, located in the Northern Cape Province between the towns of Danielskuil and Kuruman provides the oldest known human occupation of a cave with strata reaching back almost two million years.  Excavations by the late Peter Beaumont exposed a sequence of Oldowan, Acheulean, Fauresmi
MADE FOR CAPE TABLES: CERAMIC TABLEWARE TRENDS IN COLONIAL CAPE TOWN
Date: Tue, 12/05/2020 - 18:30
By: Esther Esmyol
Western Cape

Today most table and teaware will have a maker’s mark that says ‘Made in China’ but this is not a modern phenomenon.

MICROMORPHOLOGICAL EVIDENCE FOR METALWORKING IN THE VIKING-VILLAGE HOUSE AT HRÍSBRÚ, ICELAND
Date: Tue, 10/03/2020 - 18:30
By: Patricia Groenewald
Western Cape

Western Cape

SOPRIS ROCK ART IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH WEST
Date: Thu, 05/03/2020 - 19:30
By: Prof Tom Huffman
Northern
Charge: Non-members: R30, members: free 
You will need to show your driver’s licence to gain access to the school 
MUDBRICK MANUFACTURING AND CONSTRUCTION AT TELL TIMAI IN THE EGYPTIAN DELTA
Date: Tue, 11/02/2020 - 18:00
By: Jessica Nitschke
Western Cape

TROUBLE ON THE TARKA
Date: Thu, 06/02/2020 - 19:30
By: Dr Brent Sinclair Thompson
Northern
Charge: Non-members: R30, members: free 
You will need to show your driver’s licence to gain access to the school