Current Issue
DECEMBER 2025 (80) (223)
CONTENTS
 
91 EDITORIAL

93 RESEARCH ARTICLES
93 DOGS AND PEOPLE IN PRECOLONIAL SOUTHERN AFRICA: PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS TO THE SOUTH AFRICAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, APRIL 2025
PETER MITCHELL
101 DEPOSITIONAL EVENTS AND PERSISTENT PLACES ALONG THE CAPE WEST COAST: ETHNO-ARCHAEOLOGY AT TORTOISE CAVE REVISITED
JOHN PARKINGTON & KATHERINE ELMES
108 SOME IMPLICATIONS OF FOUR LATE IRON AGE SETTLEMENT FORMS IN KWAZULU-NATAL
GAVIN WHITELAW

124 FIELD AND TECHNICAL REPORTS
124 A COMPARISON BETWEEN SHORT CELL PHYTOLITHS FROM ELEUSINE CORACANA (L.) GAERTN. SUBSP. CORACANA AND A SELECTION OF WILD ELEUSINE GRASSES
TANYA HATTINGH, MARION K. BAMFORD & MARIA H. SCHOEMAN
134 THE FAUNA FROM THE SURFACE OF THE CAVE OF HEARTHS, MAKAPAN VALLEY, SOUTH AFRICA
LESEDI J. MANKGELE1 & SHAW BADENHORST2*
 
147 BOOK REVIEWS
147 COGNITIVE ARCHAEOLOGY: MIND, ETHNOGRAPHY, AND THE PAST IN SOUTH AFRICA AND BEYOND
REVIEWED BY SARAH WURZ

149 IN MEMORIAM
149 NIKOLAAS JOHANNES VAN DER MERWE: 11 AUGUST 1940–26 AUGUST 2025
JUDITH SEALY, DAVID KILLICK & JULIA LEE-THORP

151 THESES AND DISSERTATIONS
151 RECENTLY CONFERRED DOCTORATE AND MASTER’S DEGREES ON ASPECTS OF AFRICAN ARCHAEOLOGY