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Exploring Vergelegen: Cultural landscapes and wine tasting
Date: Sat, 13/09/2025 - 11:00 to 14:00
By: Sarah Winter
Western Cape
Explore the historic grounds of Vergelegen Wine Estate on an exclusive guided tour with heritage planner Sarah Winter. Conclude the experience with an optional Heritage Wine Tasting at this provincial heritage site.
A visual artist explores prehistoric techniques to create pigments for his painting
Date: Tue, 09/09/2025 - 18:00
By: Andrew Pauls
Western Cape

Charge: Free for members | R20 for student non-members | R40 for non-members
R10 will get you a glass of sherry/port, Amarula, or Coca-Cola!

Rondebosch Common Ramble: Exploring edible plants of the Cape Floristic Region
Date: Sat, 23/08/2025 - 10:00 to 12:00
By: Elzanne Singels
Western Cape
Join archaeobotanist Dr Elzanne Singels for a guided walk at Rondebosch Common exploring edible plants of the Cape Floristic Region. She’ll also have her fynbos products and booklet on indigenous food plants available for sale.
Human Origins at Florisbad – A Day of Science, Fossils, and Firelight
Date: Sat, 16/08/2025 - 10:30
By: Will Archer
Trans-!Garib
Join us on Saturday, August 16th, for a public lecture at the Florisbad Quaternary Research Station, one of South Africa’s most important sites for understanding later human evolution and environmental change in Africa.
Above Board: is Community Archaeology the Liferaft Maritime Archaeology Needs?
Date: Tue, 12/08/2025 - 18:00
By: Karyn Moshe
Western Cape
Join us on Tuesday, 12 August for a fascinating talk by Karyn Moshe (UCT), who explores how shipwrecks, community archaeology, and local narratives intersect in South Africa’s coastal waters.
The skull that launched a thousand discoveries: the history of the Taung Child and its impact on the last 100 years of South African paleoanthropology
Date: Thu, 07/08/2025 - 19:30
By: Stephanie Edwards Caruana (nee Baker)
Northern
Join Dr Stephanie Edwards Caruana for a fascinating talk on the Taung Child and its impact over the past 100 years of South African palaeoanthropology, from its discovery to its role in shaping human origins research.
It must have swarmed with great monsters: 7 million years of extinctions and ecological change in Africa
Date: Tue, 08/07/2025 - 18:00
By: Tyler Faith
Western Cape
An online talk by paleoecologist Tyler Faith on 7 million years of extinctions and ecological change in Africa, tracing how climate and humans shaped the continent’s large mammal communities.
'Two objects he had made himself': |han≠kass’o’s bullroarer and gora in Paris
Date: Sat, 14/06/2025 - 10:30
By: Justine Wintjes & Vibeke Viestad
KwaZulu-Natal
KZN Museum, 237 Jabu Ndlovu Street, Pietermaritzburg

Dr Jutine Wintjes & Dr Vibeke Viestad
KwaZulu-Natal Museum/Wits University & Wits University

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South African Extinctions and Seasonality: Insights from the Isotopic Composition of Herbivore Teeth
Date: Tue, 10/06/2025 - 18:00
By: Alexandra Norwood
Western Cape
Dr. Alexandra Norwood is a paleoecologist focused on the relationship between climate and past ecosystems. In this talk, she presents new methods for analysing enamel isotope data to uncover rainfall seasonality in the fossil record and explores how shifting seasonality in southern Africa may have contributed to late Quaternary extinctions.
Wood Charcoal from Sibhudu and Border Caves: The ecological implication of the presence of some woody plants in the stone age sites of southern Africa
Date: Thu, 29/05/2025 - 19:30
By: Bongekile Zwane
Northern
Dr Bongekile Zwane, a lecturer and researcher at the University of Johannesburg, studies wood charcoal to understand past vegetation and human-environment interactions. Her talk explores woody taxa and landscapes between 74,000 and 72,000 years ago, and possible signs of a volcanic winter linked to the Toba super-eruption.