The annual ONE DAY LECTURE SERIES of the Archaeological Society of the Western Cape and the Friends of the Stellenbosch Museum is entitled: "CLIMATE CHANGE ........Is your beach house 10 metres above mean sea level?"
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Date: Sat, 20/08/2016 - 09:00
Northern
Our aim this year is to bring together specialized speakers in the discipline of archaeology to debate current issues.
Date: Tue, 09/08/2016 - 18:00
By: Rebecca Ackermann
Western Cape
Prof Ackermann's research focuses on understanding the underlying evolutionary processes driving morphological diversification in human evolution; in other words, how we have come to look the way we do.
Date: Thu, 04/08/2016 - 19:00
By: Dr Ceri Ashley
Northern
Nineteenth non-conformist missionaries to the Tswana of southern Africa imposed very clear ideas around appropriate living and behaviour. According to their creed, the path to Christian morality and spirituality lay in personal modesty, humble, ordered living, and hard work. Accordingly, they sought to transform the everyday material experiences of the Tswana, including re-making landscapes, and re-ordering domestic spaces. This paper will discuss how missionary ideals were materially translated in a short-lived mission - the Lake Ngami mission of the London Missionary Society - in northwest Botswana.
Date: Thu, 21/07/2016 - 20:00
By: Professor Stefan Grab
Northern
The presentation explores some of the geomorphic processes that have shaped the high Drakensberg landscape over the last ca 20 000 years. Many landforms, not generally known to the public, will be presented and briefly explained. Among these are glacial, periglacial and lightning strike activity. The environmental implications of such processes are considered for both the present and future.
Date: Sun, 17/07/2016 - 09:45
By: Excursion led by Dr Morris Sutton
Northern
Swartkrans is an extremely important paleoanthropological site which was first brought to prominence by the work of Robert Broom and John Robinson, who discovered fossils of Paranthropus robustus and early Homo. These discoveries established the first evidence for the co-existence of two hominin species.
Date: Tue, 12/07/2016 - 18:00
By: Jake Harding
Western Cape
Earlier this year I was fortunate enough to assist in fieldwork with the US National Park Service's Submerged Research Center (SRC) and Southeast Archaeological Center (SEAC). This was as part of the knowledge and skills sharing partnership that is at the core of the Slave Wrecks Project (SWP).
Date: Sat, 25/06/2016 - 10:30 to Sun, 26/06/2016 - 00:00
By: Outing with Anna Batchelor-Steyn
Northern
Telperion and Ezemvelo nature reserves boast a number of archaeological features. A highlight of this weekend will be Telperion Shelter.
Date: Tue, 14/06/2016 - 17:30
By: Matthew Shaw
Western Cape
By viewing the Tankwa Karoo as a continuous landscape rather than an incomplete set of discrete sites, we aim to understand past human technological and lithic provisioning behaviour at a landscape-scale.
Date: Thu, 02/06/2016 - 20:00
By: Faye Lander
Northern
A model is suggested showing how some foragers may have become stock-keepers in the past.