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AGM and Lecture: Archaeological encounters with recent Karoo history
Date: Thu, 19/05/2016 - 19:30
By: Associate Professor Simon Hall
Northern
The landscape of the interior plateau (or Karoo) has meant different things to different people, both now and in the past. Two themes related to this historical layering will be discussed.
Annual General Meeting and Lecture
Date: Tue, 10/05/2016 - 18:00
The Annual General Meeting will take place on Tuesday 10 May 2016 at 18:00 at the SA Astronomical Observatory auditorium in Cape Town.
Enhancing the value of the past to the public: Southern African archaeology in the present.
Date: Tue, 10/05/2016 - 17:30
By: Prof. Innocent Pikirayi
Western Cape
My address focuses on the Society's role in the present and the medium term future. My central message is for the society to celebrate what is right with southern African archaeology, and not what is wrong.
Tour to the Little Karoo and southern Cape
Date: Sun, 17/04/2016 - 00:00 to Mon, 25/04/2016 - 00:00
By: Dr Janette Deacon
Northern
Carolus Baatje and the Bastards of the Platberg Mission Station
Date: Tue, 12/04/2016 - 18:00
By: Shelona Klatzow
Western Cape
The nineteenth century Wesleyan mission station of Platberg on the Caledon was situated in the turbulent frontier zone of the Caledon River Valley where arrivals of Bastard groups in Transorangia became a regular occurrence from the 1820s and 1830s.
'The bees are our sheep': the transition to livestock keeping during the last two thousand years in southernmost Africa
Date: Thu, 07/04/2016 - 20:00
By: Faye Lander & Dr Thembi Russell
Northern
We suggest a model for how some foragers may have become stock-keepers in the past.
Swartkrans Hominid Site
Date: Sun, 13/03/2016 - 10:00
By: Excursion led by Dr Morris Sutton
Northern
Dr Sutton will explain the stratigraphy of the site and discuss some of the artefacts and fossils found there.
Forts and Castles, Coasts and Hinterlands: The evolving history of a Ghanaian World Heritage Site
Date: Thu, 03/03/2016 - 20:00
By: Dr Natalie Swanepoel
Northern
One of the most striking features of the coastal landscape in Ghana is the string of European-built fortifications. This talk will contextualise these sites.
Slavery, Race and Citizenship: the ambiguous status of Freed Slaves at the Cape in the 17th and 18th centuries
Date: Tue, 01/03/2016 - 18:00
By: Susan Newton-King
Western Cape
The presentation will explore the ambiguities surrounding the social and legal status of manumitted slaves in the Cape Colony in the early eighteenth century.
Constitution Hill Tour
Date: Sun, 21/02/2016 - 10:00
By: Walking tour led by Jo Buitendach
Northern
Join Jo on a relaxed tour through one of Johannesburg’s most impressive historic sites, the Constitution Hill Precinct.