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New developments in rock art dating
Date: Thu, 15/11/2018 - 19:30
By: David Pearce
Northern
Date:          Thursday, 15 November 2018 Time:  19:30
Venue:        The Auditorium, Roedean School, 
What can old Cape bricks tell us about the earth's magnetic field? An introduction to archaeomagnetism
Date: Tue, 13/11/2018 - 18:30
By: Vincent Hare
Western Cape
In archaeomagnetism, physicists team up with archaeologists to reconstruct changes in the direction and strength of the Earth’s magnetic field over timescales of hundreds to thousands of years.
Are drylands marginal? Rethinking social complexity in the southern African Iron Age
Date: Tue, 09/10/2018 - 18:30
By: Robert Nyamushosho
Western Cape
The general conviction in the Iron Age archaeology of southern Africa is that drylands are marginal landscapes that did not host any significant agro-pastoral communities in the past.
Forgotten trails across the midlands of KZN
Date: Thu, 04/10/2018 - 19:30
By: Annalie Kleinoog
Northern
Date:          Thursday, 4 October 2018 Time:  19:30
Venue:        The Auditorium, Roedean School, 
Coach tour of historic Heidelberg
Date: Sat, 29/09/2018 - 07:30
By: Bouwer Wiersma
Northern
Date: Saturday, 29 September, 2018
Time: 7:30 to depart at 7:45 Sharp! 
Meet at: The Planetarium parking area, Wits University
Note: This is a coach tour and participants may not join in private cars.
What caused the mother of all mass extinctions? Evidence from South Africa and Antarctica
Date: Thu, 13/09/2018 - 19:30
By: Prof. Roger Smith
Northern
Middle Pleistocene human adaptive strategies along the southwest coast of South Africa
Date: Tue, 11/09/2018 - 18:30
By: Deano Stynder
Western Cape
It has been hypothesized that the morphological and behavioural traits that characterize Homo sapiens developed as adaptive responses to environmental challenges in Africa over the last million years or so.
Tour of Tibet and the Far West of China
Date: Tue, 04/09/2018 - 00:00 to Mon, 24/09/2018 - 00:00
By: Reinoud Boers
Northern
Tour of Tibet and the Far West of China

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VANISHED CIVILISATIONS - A LOOK AT SOME ASPECTS OF SIX FAMOUS CIVILISATIONS
Date: Sat, 25/08/2018 - 09:45
Northern
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Heritage Mitigation of the Olifants-Doorn River Water Resources Project: raising of Clanwilliam Dam
Date: Tue, 14/08/2018 - 18:00
By: Wouter Fourie
Western Cape
TUESDAY 14 AUGUST: 18:00 for 18:30 at the SA Astronomical Observatory auditorium: Wouter Fourie: “Heritage Mitigation of the Olifants-Doorn River Water Resources Project: raising of Clanwilliam Dam”.
 
The Clanwilliam Dam was originally commissioned in the early 1930s a