Book and Other Sales
Wide range of publications in archaeology and related fields on sale by the Northern Branch of the Society
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.
The new books listed here are generally in stock. An any other books, including out-of-print books, may be ordered as well. Contact Reinoud Boers at fox@boers.org.za or tel. 011 803 2681. Mailing will be advised. Payment by bank transfer or credit card. Prices are subject to change.
June 2023 List of Second Hand Books for Sale - click this link
June 2023 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 June 2023):
| Abundant Herds | R510 |
| Africa: Biography of a Continent. John Reader | R390 |
| Africa Since 1940. F Cooper | R310 |
| African Archaeolgy Without Frontiers. Sadr, Esterhuysen, Sievers | R380 |
| African Civilisations: an archaeological perspective. G Connah | R470 |
| 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 |
| Africans: the history of a continent. John Illife | R420 |
| After the Ice. S Mitthen | R365 |
| Anglo-Boer War Blockhouses. Green, Simon | R450 |
| Anthropocene VSI | R150 |
| 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 | R200 |
| 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 | R365 |
| Archives of Times Past. Kros, Wright, Buthelezi & Ludlow | R360 |
| Architecture, Astronomy and Sacred Landscape in Ancient Egypt. G Magli | R335 |
| Beadwork, Art and Body. A Nettleton | R390 |
| Bird Activity Book. McColaugh, Doreen | R100 |
| Birds of SA and Their Tracks and Signs. Lee Gutteridge | R320 |
| Bones and Bodies: How SA scientists studied race. Alan Morris | R340 |
| Borders of Race in Colonial South Africa: the Kat River Settlement. R Ross | R315 |
| Brain, The. David Eagleman | R320 |
| Burchell’s African Odessy. | R410 |
| Burchell’s Travels. Susan Buchanan | R330 |
| Bushmen of Souther Africa | R295 |
| Bushman Rock Art: an interprative guide. T Forsmann | R180 |
| Bushman Stories. !Kwa ttu | R275 |
| Cape Herders. Boonzaaier et al. | R270 |
| Catastrophes and Lesser Casualities. Hallam, T | R195 |
| Caves of the Ape-man. Ron Clark | R230 |
| Cederberg Rock Paintings. John Parkington | R320 |
| Climate, Clothing and Agriculture in Prehistory. Ian Gilligan | R340 |
| Climate Crisis, The. Vishwas Satgar | R350 |
| Concentration Camps of the Anglo-Boer War. E van Heyningen | R295 |
| Congo: The epic history. D van Roebrouck | R295 |
| Cradle of Humankind. Janette Deacon | R45 |
| Cradle of Life: The story of the Magaliesberg. Vincent Carruthers | R375 |
| Creation of the Zulu Kingdom, 1815-1828. E Eldredge | R395 |
| Curbing Catastrope. T Dixon | R350 |
| Dance of the Dung Beetles. Byrne & Lunn | R320 |
| Darwin’s Hunch: Science, Race & the Search for Human Origins. C Kuljian | R320 |
| Deciphering Ancient Minds. David Lewis-Williams | R325 |
| Diamonds, Gold and War: The making of SA. Meredith, M | R280 |
| Dress as Social Relations. Vibeke Viestad | R350 |
| 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 | R320 |
| Field Guide to the Amaryllis Family of Southern Africa. Voigt, Leigh | R410 |
| Field Guide to the Battlefields of South Africa. Nicki van der Heide | R410 |
| Field Guide to Rocks and Minerals in SA. Cairncross, B | R385 |
| Field Guid to the Trees of Southern Africa. Van Wyk, B-E | R535 |
| Field Guide to Wild Flowers of South Africa. John Manning | R490 |
| Fifty Must-see Geological Sites in South Africa. G Whitfield | R360 |
| First People. John Parkington | R320 |
| First People at the Cape. Allen Mountain | R320 |
| Five Hundred Years Rediscovered. Swanepoel, Esterhuysen & Bonner | R320 |
| Food or War. Julian Cribb | R150 |
| Food Plants of the World. Van Wyk, B-E | R685 |
| Footprints: On the trail of those who made history in Lowveld. Hilton-Barber | R230 |
| Forgotten Battles of the Zulu War. A Greaves | R370 |
| From Tools to Symbols. D’Errico & Blackwell | R125 |
| Fossils for Africa. A Chinsamy-Turan | R200 |
| Fossil Men: Quest for the oldest skeleton & the origins of humans. Patterson | R375 |
| Frontiers. Mosterd, Noel | R380 |
| 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 | R80 |
| 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 | R210 |
| Guns, Germs and Steel. Jared Diamond | R270 |
| Handook to the Cradle of Humankind. Lee Berger & Elliott | R270 |
| Handbook to the Iron Age. Tom Huffman | R330 |
| Healing the Exposed Being. R Thornton | R380 |
| History of African Popular Culture. | R375 |
| History of Modern Africa. Richard Reid | R420 |
| History of South Africa. Fransjohan Pretorius | R370 |
| Homo Deus. Harari, Yuval | R260 |
| How on Earth. McCarthy, T | R295 |
| How to Avoid Climate Disasters. Bil Gates | R330 |
| Human Beginnings in South Africa. Deacon & Deacon | R270 |
| Humankind: a hopeful history. Bregman, Rutger | R260 |
| Human Origins: how diet, climate and landscape shaped us. J Crompton | R325 |
| Hunters and Herders of Southern Africa. Alan Barnard | R340 |
| Image-makers. David Lewis-Williams | R220 |
| Illustrated History of the Hartebeespoort Dam. Vincent Carruthers | R195 |
| Immortalising the Past: Reproductions of Zimbabwe rock art. Lionel Cripps | R315 |
| Indigenous Mining and Metallurgy in Africa. S Chirikure | R190 |
| Inside the Neolithic Mind. David Lewis-Williams & David Pearce | R425 |
| Into the Past: a memoir. Phillip Tobias | R90 |
| Invention of Nature. Andrea Wulf | R310 |
| Karoo Cosmos. Parkington et al. | R300 |
| Karoo Rock Engravings. John Parkington | R225 |
| Language Evolution. R Botha | R370 |
| Language in Prehistory. Barnard, Alan | R280 |
| Living Desert in Southern Africa. B Lovegrove | R485 |
| Mapungubwe. Janette Deacon | R45 |
| Mapungubwe: Ancient African Civilisations on the Limpopo. Tom Huffman | R170 |
| Mfecane Aftrmath. Hamilton,Carolyn | R375 |
| Migration and National Identity in South Africa, 1860-2010. Andie Klotz | R320 |
| Mind in the Cave. David Lewis-Williams | R390 |
| Musical Instruments of the Indigenous Peoples of SA. PR Kirby | R375 |
| Myth and Meaning: San Bushman folklore. David Lewis-Williams | R390 |
| Namib. Kinahan, J | R380 |
| Of Hominins, Hunter-gatherers and Heroes. | R260 |
| Origin of the Species. Charles Darwin | R215 |
| Origins of Life in the Universe. Robert Jastrow & Michael Rampino | R540 |
| Otherlands: A world in the making. Thomas Halliday | R410 |
| Paleazoology and Paleoenvironments. Faith & Lyman | R340 |
| Palaces of Stone. Huffman, Tom | R260 |
| People of the Earth: An introduction to world prehistory. Brian Fagan | R495 |
| People of the Eland. Pat Vinnicombe | R340 |
| Pocket Guide to Rocks and Minerals of Southern Africa. Cairncross, B | R240 |
| Pocket Guide to Trees of South Africa. Van Wyk, B-E | R230 |
| 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 |
| River of Gold. Norton, Gardner and Walker | R340 |
| Rock Shelter. Pieter Jollie | R195 |
| San Elders Speak. Backwell, L and D’Erico, F | R360 |
| San Rock Art. David Lewis-Williams | R160 |
| San Spirituality. David Lewis-Williams | R190 |
| Sapiens: a brief history (Book). Harari, Y | R230 |
| 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 |
| Silence of Great Zimbabwe. Fontein, Joost | R240 |
| Slave Emancipation and Racial Attitudes in 19th Century SA. RL Watson | R250 |
| 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 | R270 |
| Story of Earth and Life. Bruce Rubidge and Spike McCarthy | R460 |
| Structure, Meaning and Ritualin the Narrative of the Southern San. R Hewitt | R90 |
| Termites of the Gods. Siyaka Nguni | R260 |
| This Idea is Brilliant. J Brockman | R315 |
| Tobias in Conversation. Philip Tobias and Dugard | R50 |
| Traditional Fishing Methods of Africa | R190 |
| Traditionally Useful Plants of Africa. Xaba | R190 |
| Transformations in Slavery: a history of slavery in Africa. Paul Lovejoy | R385 |
| Tricksters and Trancers. Guenther, Mathias | |
| 21 Lessons for the 21st Century. Y Harari | R270 |
| Understanding Collapse. GD Middleton | R350 |
| Unnatural World. D Bielo | R390 |
| Visionary Animal. Ego, Reinaud | R380 |
| 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 | R150 |
| Who We Are and How We Got Here. D Reich | R320 |
| Wildflowers of the Waterberg. Wadley, et al. | R330 |
| Working with Rock Art. Ben Smith | R225 |
| World of Ceramics. Sian Tiley-Nel | R180 |
| Writing the Ancestral River | R350 |
| OTHER ITEMS | |
| ArchSoc Mugs | R30 |
| Posters: 'Botha’s Cave' – Rock Art Research Institute | R45 |
| ‘History of Southern African Archaeology’ | R10 |
June 2023 List of Second Hand Books for Sale - click this link