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ArchFox Books, in association with the Northern Branch of ArchSoc, offers a wide range of books on archaeology and related fields of interest to members and friends of the Society. The Northern Branch benefits financially from the sales, which is one reason why it is in a position to make generous annual grants for archaeological research and education.

 

Books and other items are sold at Northern Branch lectures and at its Annual School in October. However, orders may also be placed direct either for collection, or for delivery by post. Mail orders are subject to a postage and packaging charge of R75 upwards for South African orders, depending on the weight of the parcel. All mail orders are sent by registered post.

 

ArchFox Books is also ready to assist in obtaining any book required and specialises in locating second-hand copies of rare books, or books that are out of print.   

 

To place your order for any of the items listed or any books not listed, please contact Reinoud Boers at fox@boers.org.za, tel. 011 803 2681, cell 082 566 6295, or fax 0866 199 133

July 2021 List of Second Hand Books for Sale - click this link

For a list of the more available books on sale, please see the following (updated December 2020):

Abundant Herds	R455
Africa: Biography of a Continent. John Reader	R390
Africa Calling. Udo Kuessel	R620
Africa Since 1940. F Cooper	R310
African Archaeolgy Without Frontiers. Sadr, Esterhuysen, Sievers	R380
African Civilisations: an archaeological perspective. G Connah	R470
African Dream Machines. Nettleton, A	R165
African History: A very short introduction. John Parker & Richard Rathbone	R140
African Kaiser: Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck & the Great War in Africa. R Gaudi	R395
African Languages: An introduction. Frank Marlow	R370
African Philosophy: myth and reality. Hountondji, Paulin	R385
Africans: the history of a continent. John Illife	R355
After the Ice. S Mitthen	R365
Almost Human: Astonishing Tale of Homo Naledi. Burger, Lee	R290
Annotated Old Fourlegs. Mike Bruton	R355
Ape That Understood the Universe. S Stewart-Williams	R290
Ape’s View of Human Evolution. Pieter Andrews	R350
Archaeological Heritage of Africa. G Pwiti and W Ndoro	R190
Archaeological Resource Management. J Carman	R465
Archaeology of Food, The. Katheryn Twiss	R340
Archaeology and Ethnography of Central Africa. James Denbow	R285
Archaeology of Southern Africa. Peter Mitchell	R335
Architecture, Astronomy and Sacred Landscape in Ancient Egypt. G Magli	R335
Beadwork, Art and Body. A Nettleton	R390
Birds of SA and Their Tracks and Signs. Lee Gutteridge	R300
Border of Race in Colonial South Africa: the Kat River Settlement. R Ross	R295
Brain, The. David Eagleman	R240
Burchell’s Travels. Susan Buchanan	R295
Bushmen of Southern Africa. Andy Smith et al.	R250
Bushman Letters: Interpreting the /Xam narrative. M Wessels	R225
Bushman Rock Art: an interprative guide. T Forsmann	R180
Bushman Shaman. B Keeney	R295
Bushman Stories. !Kwa ttu	R275
Cape Herders. Boonzaaier et al.	R210
Capturing the Spoor. Ed and Catherijn Eastwood	R340
Caves of the Ape-man. Ron Clark	R225
Cederberg Rock Paintings. John Parkington	R240
Claim to the Country. Pippa Skotnes	R450
Climate, Clothing and Agriculture in Prehistory. Ian Gilligan	R340
Climate Crisis, The. Vishwas Satgar	R360
Conceiving God. Lewis-Williams, D	R495
Concentration Camps of the Anglo-Boer War. E van Heyningen	R295
Congo: The epic history. D van Roebrouck	R295
Cradle of Humankind. Janette Deacon R	R 45
Cradle of Life: The story of the Magaliesberg. Vincent Carruthers	R325
Creation of the Zulu Kingdom, 1815-1828. E Eldredge	R395
Curbing Catastrope. T Dixon	R350
Dance of the Dung Beetles. Byrne & Lunn	R295
Darwin’s Hunch: Science, Race & the Search for Human Origins. C Kuljian	R300
Deciphering Ancient Minds. David Lewis-Williams	R325
Diamonds, Gold and War: The making of SA. Meredith, M	R280
Discovering Southern AfricanRock Art. David Lewis-Williams	R190
Dress as Social Relations. Vibeke Viestad	R585
Dunga Manzi/Still Waters. Nessa Liebhammer	R100
Eight Zulu Kings, The. J Labrand	R270
Eland’s People: New perspectives in the rock art. Benjamin Smith	R225
Explorers of the Nile: Triumph and tragedy of Victorian adventure. Tim Teal	R245
Feast from Nature. Renate Coetzee	R695
Field Guide to the Battlefields of South Africa. Nicki van der Heide	R385
Field Guide to Rocks and Minerals in SA. Cairncross, B	R355
Fifty Must-see Geological Sites in South Africa. G Whitfield	R375
First People. John Parkington	R280
First People at the Cape. Allen Mountain	R280
Five Hundred Years Rediscovered. Swanepoel, Esterhuysen & Bonner	R320
Food or War. Julian Cribb	R150
Footprints: On the trail of those who made history in Lowveld. Hilton-Barber	R230
Forgotten World (with DVD). Peter Delius, Tim Maggs and Alex Schoeman	R350
Fossils for Africa. A Chinsamy-Turan	R190
From Tools to Symbols. D’Errico & Blackwell	R125
Frontiers.	R475
Genes, People and Languages. LG Cavalli Sforza	R235
Genocide on Settled Frontiers. M Adhikari	R520
Geological Journeys. Nick Norman & Gavin Whitfield	R295
Goodwin 9: Further Approaches to Southern African Rock Art. Geoff Blundell R	R 80
Goodwin 10: Middle Stone Age. Lyn Wadley	R150
Goodwin 11: Skeletal Identity	R150
Great South African Inventions. M Bruton	R165
Guide to the Sieges of South Africa. Nicki van der Heyde	R200
Guns, Germs and Steel. Jared Diamond	R240
Handbook to the Cradle of Humankind. Berger, Lee	R270
Handbook to the Iron Age. Tom Huffman	R485
Healing the Exposed Being. R Thornton	R380
Hidden Life of Trees: what they feel, how they communicate. P Wohleben	R410
Historical Archaeology of the Cape. C Shire	R430
History of African Popular Culture.	R265
History of Modern Africa. Richard Reid	R420
History of Modern Uganda. Richard Reid	R265
Homo Deus. Harari, Yuval	R225
How on Earth. McCarthy, T	R285
How the Snake Lost Its Legs. LJ Held	R410
Human Beginnings in South Africa. Deacon & Deacon	R280
Human Origins: how diet, climate and landscape shaped us. J Crompton	R325
Hunters and Herders of Southern Africa. Alan Barnard `	R610
Image-makers. David Lewis-Williams	R220
Immortalising the Past: Reproductions of Zimbabwe rock art. Lionel Cripps	R315
Indigenous Healing Plants. Roberts and Roberts	R400
Indigenous Mining and Metallurgy in Africa. S Chirikure	R190
Inside the Neolithic Mind. David Lewis-Williams & David Pearce	R410
Into the Past: a memoir. Phillip Tobias	R90
Invention of Nature. Andrea Wulf	R235
Kalahari Hunter-Gatherers. RB Lee	R445
Karoo Rock Engravings. John Parkington	R225
Language Evolution. R Botha	R370
Language in Prehistory. Barnard, Alan	R280
Last Giants: Rise and fall of the African elephant. Levison Wood	R350
Letsopa Clay. Sian Tiley-Nel	R180
Life of Bone. Brenner et al.	R225
Mapungubwe. Janette Deacon	R45
Mapungubwe: Ancient African Civilisations on the Limpopo. Tom Huffman	R165
Medicinal Plants in South Africa. Ben-Eric van Wyk	R390
Mfecane Aftrmath. Hamilton,Carolyn	R375
Migration and National Identity in South Africa, 1860-2010. Andie Klotz	R320
Mind in the Cave. David Lewis-Williams	R410
Mirror in the Ground. Nick Shepherd	R245
Musical Instruments of the Indigenous Peoples of SA. PR Kirby	R375
Muti and Myths from the African Bush. Dugmore and van Wyk	R175
Myth and Meaning: San Bushman folklore. David Lewis-Williams	R390
National Treasures: the Mapungubwe Gold. Sian Tiley-Nel	R180
Origin of the Species. Charles Darwin	R215
Origins of Life in the Universe. Robert Jastrow & Michael Rampino	R540
Paleazoology and Paleoenvironments. Faith & Lyman	R340
People of the Earth: An introduction to world prehistory. Brian Fagan	R495
People of the Eland. Pat Vinnicombe	R340
Plants of the Gods. R Schultes	R540
Pocket Guide to Rocks and Minerals of Southern Africa. Cairncross, B	R185
Politics of Heritage in South Africa. D Peterson	R150
Popular Politics in the History of South Africa 1400-1948. Paul Landau	R255
Reader’s Brain, The. Y Douglas	R190
Reservoirs of Potency. S Townley Basset	R265
River of Gold.Norton, Gardner and Walker	R340
Rock Art of the Joe Gqabi District, Eastern Cape Highlands. Dawn Green	R120
Rock Shelter. Pieter Jollie	R195
San Rock Art (Pocket History Series). David Lewis-Williams	R150
San Spirituality. David Lewis-Williams	R190
Sapiens: a brief history (Book). Harari, Y	R225
Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus. Crais & Scully	R90
Search for Origins. Phil Bonner	R190
Seeing and Knowing. Geoff Blundell	R225
Settling the Earth: archaeology of deep human history. Clive Gamble	R320
Shorelines, Strandlopers and Shell Middens. John Parkington	R225
Short History of Mozambique. Marilyn Newitt	R245
Slave Emancipation and Racial Attitudes in 19th Century SA. RL Watson	R295
South African Battles. Tim Couzens	R270
South African Ceramics. Sian Tiley-Nel	R180
Specimens of Bushman Folklore. Bleek & Lloyd	R300
Sterkfontein: Early hominid site in the Cradle of Humankind. A Esterhuysen	R165
Stone Tools in Human Evolution. John Shea	R345
Stories that Float from Afar. David Lewis-Williams	R225
Story of Earth and Life. Bruce Rubidge and Spike McCarthy	R345
Structure, Meaning and Ritualin the Narrative of the Southern San. R Hewitt	R90
Tales from the Old Karoo. Guy Butler	R220
Termites of the Gods. Siyaka Nguni	R240
This Idea is Brilliant. J Brockman	R315
Tobias in Conversation. Philip Tobias and Dugard	R50
Tracks in a Mountain Range. John Wright & Aron Mazel	R90
Traditional Fishing Methods of Africa	R190
Traditionally Useful Plants of Africa. Xaba	R190
Transformations in Slavery: a history of slavery in Africa. Paul Lovejoy	R290
Tricksters and Trancers. Guenther, Mathias	POR
Triumph and Tragedy: Trappist Monasteries in South Africa. Nicki vd Heyde	R160
Tsodilo Hills: Copper bracelets of the Kalahari. Campbell at all	R420
Twenty-one Lessons for the 21st Century. Y Harari	R225
Understanding Collapse. GD Middleton	R350
Understanding Evolution. Kostas Kampourakis	R265
Unnatural World. D Bielo	R315
Visionary Animal. Ego, Reinaud	R525
Vredefort Dome. D Fleminger	R75
Waterberg Echoes. Richard Wadley	R1050
Way of the Bushmen. B & H Keeney	R345
We Die Like Brothers: the sinking of the SS Mendi. Gribble, J & Scott, G	R240
What the Stork Brought. John Saul	R350
When I was Fish. Mike Bruton	R255
Who We Are and How We Got Here. D Reich	R245
Working with Rock Art. Ben Smith	R225
World of Ceramics. Sian Tiley-Nel	R180
World of the Seekoei River Bushmen.	R420
Writing the Ancestral River	R350
Your Inner Fish. Neil Shubin	R220

OTHER ITEMS

ArchSoc Mugs	R30
Posters: 'Botha’s Cave' – Rock Art Research Institute	R45
‘History of Southern African Archaeology’	R10

July 2021 List of Second Hand Books for Sale - click this link