Iziko South African Museum

Faculty Member, Pre-Colonial Archaeology

Other Affiliations: University of South Africa, Anthropology and Archaeology
The University of Western Australia, School of Social and Cultural Studies
University of the Witwatersrand, Rock Art Research Institute

Curator of Archaeology

Iziko South African Museum

Thesis Title: Imprints: an archaeology of identity in post-Apartheid southern Africa

About

I studied for my BA and BA Honours at Wits University (1988-1992). I then worked as the Head of the Rock Art Department at National Museum in Bloemfontein (1994-2002) before being lucky enough to get a scholarship to read for an MA and PhD at Berkeley in California (2002-2006). While studying there I also taught Ancient African History at San Quentin Prison outside San Francisco. I returned to South Africa as a Senior Lecturer at the University of Pretoria’s Department of Anthropology & Archaeology (2006-2011) before coming to Iziko South African Museum as Curator in 2011.

I specialise in rock art, graffiti, landscape, fakes, creolisation & contact, monuments, intellectual property issues, and the uses and abuses of archaeology in South Africa, Israel and Palestine.

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