New Book

Title: Hunting or Scavenging in the Early and Middle Stone Ages of Africa

Author: Peter Nilssen

Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller

The book is available from Amazon.com, bod.de and other online book stores. Simply go ogle the ISBN number given below.

ISBN 978-3-639-37474-2

Precis:  

Evaluating inferences about hominid meat-eating behaviours is the primary objective of this book. Many scholars consider these behaviours as critical features in human evolution. Most zooarchaeologists agree that butchery marks constitute the most reliable gauge of hominid involvement with animal bones. I focus on cut marks because experiments focused on their placement and frequencies produced by various butchery activities. Many reconstructions of hominid meat-eating behaviours were based on Binford’s observations of the Nunamiut. The primary shortcoming of the latter studies is that cut marks produced by different butchery activities were not separable into categories related to specific butchery activities, because several butchery procedures were performed on the same bones. The present study remedies this situation by separating butchery activities so that cut marks could unambiguously be assigned to specific butchery procedures. A revised inventory of cut marks and their associated behaviours is presented. Evaluating cut marks indicate that Early and Middle Stone Age hominins had different access to animal carcasses.

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Alan Cave

environmental assessment and planning, visual impact assessment, land planning and design, recreational planning and design, urban design, community planning and design

 

 

Alan Cave

 

Alan Cave holds a BSc in Mining Engineering and a Master of Philosophy in Landscape Design and has 34 years experience in the field of landscape and environmental planning, design and environmental impact assessment. 

His experience in the gold mining field in SA and abroad (5years) reinforces his input of his chosen field of specialisation in environmental planning, assessment and landscape design. His pioneering work in Visual Impact Assessment in RSA has assisted in the understanding of this aspect as a tool for planning and design. He is a member of the Certification Board of the profession of Impact Assessors. He has gained Experience has been gained in large scale internationally funded projects by acting as project leader for the environmental impact assessment for the new Letsibogo Dam in Botswana and the new N3 Toll Road in South Africa. Both of the reports received favourable reviews by international donor agencies. His interest in ecological aspects and processes has provided the ability to read landscapes and to apply this knowledge to conceptual planning and rehabilitation on a large and small scale.

He is a principal in the landscape architecture and environmental planning firm with offices in Pretoria, and George that executes projects both nationally and internationally. The practice specialises in environmental assessment and planning, visual impact assessment, land planning and design, recreational planning and design, urban design and community planning and design.

His interests include birding, fly fishing, photography and enjoying life with friends. He has two daughters who live in Oslo.

Alan Cave and Menno Klapwijk established the firm Cave Klapwijk and Associates in 1989.

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Heritage Western Cape – minimum standards

 

 

HERITAGE WESTERN CAPE (HWC)  

MINIMUM STANDARDS FOR PHASE 1 ARCHAEOLOGICAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT (AIA) REPORTS  

Archaeological Impact Assessments are required either as:  

• part of Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs) submitted to the provincial Department of Environmental Affairs and Development Planning (in terms of the Environment Conservation Act, Act 73 of 1989, and the National Environment Management Act, as amended, Act 107 of 1998), in which case Heritage Western Cape (HWC) is a commenting authority in terms of s.38(8) of the National Heritage Resources Act (Act No. 25 of 1999) and forwards a Record of Decision to this Department, 

• or for developments specified in s.38(1) of the National Heritage Resources Act where a heritage impact assessment (HIA) is required as a result of a Notification of Intent to Develop (NID) to HWC, in which case HWC is the only decision-making authority. 

AIAs submitted for both types are assessed monthly by the Archaeology, Palaeontology and Meteorites Committee (APM) of HWC. Recommendations and decisions made by this Committee are for assessment of archaeological and palaeontological reports only and do not apply to any other decisions that might be required for the built environment or cultural landscape. 

HWC is working on the development of companion minimum standards for Palaeontological Impact Assessment (PIA) Reports. Until these are complete, the AIA minimum standards will be applied to both archaeological and palaeontological reports. 

Phase 1 AIAs are required to

• identify any archaeological sites (i.e. certain places with evidence of human activity more than 100 years old), 

• assess their significance, 

• comment on the impact the proposed development will have on them, and 

• make recommendations for mitigation or conservation. 

Phase 2 AIAs might be required for the mitigation (i.e. excavation or sampling) of significant sites before development takes place. 

Phase 3 AIAs might be required for the conservation of highly significant sites before, during and after development. 

1.1.Assessment and Reporting  

Phase 1 AIAs generally involve a field survey of the proposed development site and the report must therefore include: 

a. what type of AIA this is (i.e. s.38(1), or s.38(8); 

b. details of the location of the property to be developed; 

c. location of the sites that are found; 

d. short description of the characteristics of each site; 

e. short assessment of how important each site is; 

f. assessment of the potential impact of the development on the site/s; 

g. in some cases, a shovel test to establish the extent of a site, or collection of archaeological material to identify its associations, (for which a permit will be required); and 

h. recommendations for mitigation or conservation. 

The report is intended to inform the client about the heritage resources and their significance and make appropriate recommendations. It is essential that it also provides HWC with sufficient information about the sites in order for the Committee to assess with confidence and decide: 

a. whether or not it has objections to a development; 

b. what the conditions are upon which such development might proceed; 

c. which sites require permits for destruction; 

d. which sites require mitigation and what this should comprise; and 

e. what measures should/can be put in place to protect sites that should be conserved. 

When a Phase 1 is part of an EIA required by the Department of Environmental Affairs and Development Planning, wider issues such as public consultation and assessment of the spatial and visual impacts of the development might be undertaken as part of the general study and are usually not required from the archaeologist. If however the Phase 1 AIA forms a major component of an Impact Assessment required in terms of s.38(1) of the National Heritage Resources Act (usually referred to as a Heritage Impact Assessment or HIA), it will be necessary to ensure that the study addresses these requirements as specified in s.38(3) and (4). 

1.2.Letter of Recommendation for Exemption  

When a property is either very disturbed (e.g. has been quarried or mined) or is very small and the archaeologist believes it is highly unlikely that any archaeological remains will be found, a letter to HWC can be supplied by the specialist to indicate that there is no necessity for a full Phase 1 AIA report. This must be accompanied by information about the nature of the development and a map and photographic record of the relevant area. 

1.3.Requirements for Permits to Disturb or Destroy Archaeological Sites  

There are three points during development at which HWC may be approached for permission to disturb an archaeological site during the impact assessment process: 

1. Shovel-Test Permits: in particular circumstances (e.g. coastal settings or early colonial urban areas), these are issued to the archaeologist on request prior to or immediately after a Phase 1 survey in order to determine the depth and nature of archaeological deposits below ground level. 

2. Mitigation Permits as part of Phase 2 AIAs: these are for excavation or collection in order to sample and assess sites, and/or to recover materials for radiocarbon dating at sites that will be impacted by the development. The archaeologist must apply for these permits before the Phase 2 study, and after assessment of the Phase 1 AIA report. 

3. Destruction Permits: these are generally issued to the developer after assessment of Phase 2 AIA reports. HWC is likely to request that sites that will be destroyed to make way for development must be radiocarbon dated and later monitored during their destruction. Monitoring allows for the sampling of buried archaeological remains and for the recovery of the contents of unmarked human graves with as little disturbance as possible. 

2. AIAS AND THE NATIONAL INVENTORY  

Phase 1 and Phase 2 AIAs are very often the last opportunity we will ever have to record the remains or evidence of people who lived in this country before us. These records are immensely important to our understanding of the past and as such they form an important part of our National Estate. 

It is important that the quality of these reports is high, that they characterize and date the sites meaningfully, and reflect best practice in terms of the identification, assessment, interpretation and management of our archaeological heritage. These reports might well be consulted many years after their submission, either for the purpose of further heritage management, research, education or heritage tourism among others. 

Developers or specialists may soon be required to provide a copy of the report submitted to HWC to the SAHRA provincial office so that it can form part of the national inventory. 

3. PHASE 1 AIA REPORTS: MINIMUM STANDARDS  

3.1.Every Archaeological Impact Assessment Report must include:  

A. Title Page with: 

a. Title that identifies this report. It should give the name and geographical location of the site(s) and/ or project, including property or farm name, magisterial district, and province; 

b. Author(s) name(s) and details, company name and contact details; 

c. Developer / consultant’s name (who commissioned the report) and their postal address, telephone and fax numbers; 

d. Date (including day and month); 

B. Executive Summary including: 

a. The purpose of the study; 

b. A brief summary of the findings

c. The recommendations; and 

d. Any stakeholders or people responsible for decisions and actions. 

C. Table of Contents, for reports longer than 10 pages.  

D. Background Information on the Project with: 

a. whether the report is part of a scoping report/ EIA or HIA (s. 38(1)); 

b. type of development (e.g. low cost housing project, mining, resort); 

c. whether re-zoning and/or subdivision of land is involved; 

d. terms of Reference; and 

e. any other legislative requirements. 

E. Background to the relevant heritage components of the area with: 

a. a literature review and archival research for all relevant heritage components; 

b. reference to museum databases and collections; and 

c. previous relevant impact assessment reports for the area (not only those previously compiled by the AIA’s author). 

This background is required in part to anticipate or predict the kinds of heritage resources that might occur, and in part to gauge the regional significance of archaeological findings made during the current assessment. 

If there is reason to believe that palaeontological resources will be affected, a background scooping report should be forwarded to a Palaeontologist for comment. The report must include all the required locality data and the footprint size of the proposed development to allow the probability of an impact on palaeontological resources to be assessed and evaluated. 

F. Description of the Property or Affected Environment, its setting and heritage resources, with: 

A. Details of the area surveyed including: 

i. full location data for Province, Magisterial District/Local Authority and property (e.g. farm/erf) name and number, etc.; 

ii. location Map(s)/ orthophotos of the general area. These must include the map name and number (e.g. 3318DC Bellville). Maps must include at least a 1:50 000 and (if available) also a 1:10 000 (i.e. most detailed possible). 

a. Title that identifies this report. It should give the name and geographical location of the site(s) and/ or project, including property or farm name, magisterial district, and province; 

b. Author(s) name(s) and details, company name and contact details; 

c. Developer / consultant’s name (who commissioned the report) and their postal address, telephone and fax numbers; 

d. Date (including day and month); 

B. Executive Summary including: 

a. The purpose of the study; 

b. A brief summary of the findings

c. The recommendations; and 

d. Any stakeholders or people responsible for decisions and actions. 

C. Table of Contents, for reports longer than 10 pages.  

D. Background Information on the Project with: 

a. whether the report is part of a scoping report/ EIA or HIA (s. 38(1)); 

b. type of development (e.g. low cost housing project, mining, resort); 

c. whether re-zoning and/or subdivision of land is involved; 

d. terms of Reference; and 

e. any other legislative requirements. 

E. Background to the relevant heritage components of the area with: 

a. a literature review and archival research for all relevant heritage components; 

b. reference to museum databases and collections; and 

c. previous relevant impact assessment reports for the area (not only those previously compiled by the AIA’s author). 

This background is required in part to anticipate or predict the kinds of heritage resources that might occur, and in part to gauge the regional significance of archaeological findings made during the current assessment. 

If there is reason to believe that palaeontological resources will be affected, a background scooping report should be forwarded to a Palaeontologist for comment. The report must include all the required locality data and the footprint size of the proposed development to allow the probability of an impact on palaeontological resources to be assessed and evaluated. 

F. Description of the Property or Affected Environment, its setting and heritage resources, with: 

a. Details of the area surveyed including: 

i. full location data for Province, Magisterial District/Local Authority and property (e.g. farm/erf) name and number, etc.; 

ii. location Map(s)/ orthophotos of the general area. These must include the map name and number (e.g. 3318DC Bellville). Maps must include at least a 1:50 000 and (if available) also a 1:10 000 (i.e. most detailed possible). 

Large-scale satellite photographs can also be submitted in addition, but only if in colour. All maps should be preferably A4 in size. A Location Map (aerial or orthophotograph) must have 

iii. the location map must show the size and extent of both the area searched (or GPS “bread-crumb” trail of search), the area to be developed (footprint) and roads and trails accessible by people. If not all of the property was searched, the practitioner must explain why this was not the case and must comment on the probability of sites occurring, and on the relative impact of the development, on the un-searched parts of the property. the polygon of the property concerned marked on it (not just an arrow pointing to it) and full geographical co-ordinates for all relevant points must be given in the text and/or figure caption; and 

iv. It is expected that all likely foci of potential archaeological sites in the affected landscape will be investigated. 

b. Description of the methodology used including: 

i. how the area was searched (e.g. a three-person team for two days, on foot or not); 

ii. what the restrictions to the study were, for example: 

  • • visibility affected by high grass or bush or vegetation cover, mobile dunes, walls or concrete surfaces;
  • • physical or other impediments (e.g. vlei, swamps, steep kloofs) to the assessment of the area;

and what the likelihood is of sites being found during development based on an assessment of potential resources and previous work in the area; and 

iii. how the data was acquired, and details of research equipment (e.g., GPS, camera). 

G. Description of Sites identified and mapped with: 

a. Details of the location of all archaeological sites including: 

i. site map or aerial photograph of the specific area with the location of all sites marked on it (at least A4 size, referencing the map with name and number, e.g. 3318DC Bellville); 

ii. GPS readings with the model and datum used (WGS 84 and UTM (metric) are considered the most useful), as well as the accuracy. 

b. An adequate description of each archaeological site including: 

i. type of site (e.g. open scatter, shell midden, cave/shelter, colonial dump); 

ii. site category (e.g. Earlier Stone Age, Later Stone Age); 

iii. context (detail description of depositional history and depositional environment); 

iv. the cultural affinities, approximate age and significant features of the site; 

v. estimation or measurement of the extent (maximum dimensions) and orientation of the site(s) (e.g., caves and shelters); 

vi. a record of the depth and stratification of the site (where shovel test permits have been given, and where natural exposures are available), both in the text and through photographs of the sections; 

vii. records of possible sources of information about past environments, such as stalagtites/stalagmites, flowstone, dassie middens, peat or organic rich deposits and natural bone accumulations; and 

viii. photographs of artefacts with a centimetre scale and a caption. Include a ‘wide angle’ photo of the sites. Avoid high contrast situations, e.g. where shadows of the photographer or of section walls fall on the subject matter. 

c. Threats or sources of risk and their impact on the heritage resources (e.g. direct indirect as a result of earth moving, traffic of vehicles or humans, erosion). 

H. Description of the Artefacts, Faunal, Botanical or Other Finds and Features for each site

Record meaningful information such as: 

a. raw material; 

b. type of artefact; 

c. maximum dimensions of a sample of artefacts or other relevant materials; 

d. relative frequency of and significant attributes of stone tools observed on the surface; 

e. basic description of ceramics; 

f. description of other artefacts; 

g. description of archaeological features (e.g. hearths, bedding, walling); 

h. basic description of faunal or botanical taxa and estimated frequencies; 

i. adequate photographic and graphic representations of artefacts found, with scale in cm; and cross-reference photographs with a map and co-ordinates showing where the artefacts in the photographs were found (for example, if isolated handaxes are found in a field); and 

j. location of repositories of artefacts, photographs, rock art tracings and field records from other sites in the general area. 

I. Clear Description of Burial Grounds and Graves [a copy must be submitted to SAHRA, as HWC has not yet been given competency on section 36 of the National Heritage Resources Act (NHRA, No. 25, 1999)] including

a. clear written and photographic description of any graves; 

b. exact (if head stone present) or estimated age and affinities of the burials; and 

c. clear discussion for the client of the legal implications (include reference to both the Act and the regulations for s. 36 and particularly the public participation process. The latter might be better done by a social consultant). 

J. Field Rating (recommended grading) of the site: 

While grading is ultimately the responsibility of the heritage resources authorities it would be helpful if the report included field rating (proposal for grading) for the site(s), for example: 

a. National: This site is considered to be of Grade I significance and should be nominated as such. 

b. Provincial: This site is considered to be of Grade II significance and should be nominated as such. 

c. Local: this site is of Grade IIIA significance. Mitigation as part of the development process is not advised. The site should be retained as a heritage site (High significance). 

d. Local: this site is of Grade IIIB significance. It should be mitigated and (part) should be retained as a heritage site (High significance). 

e. Generally Protected A: this site should be mitigated before destruction (generally High/Medium significance). 

f. Generally Protected B: this site should be recorded before destruction (generally Medium significance). 

g. Generally Protected C: this site has been sufficiently recorded. It requires no further recording before destruction (generally Low significance). 

K. Statement of Significance giving the significant archaeological heritage value of each site in terms of the legislation (NHRA, section 3 (3) listed below)or in terms of any other relevant criteria, and give reasons. 

a. its importance in the community, or pattern of South Africa’s history; 

b. its possession of uncommon, rare or endangered aspects of South Africa’s natural or cultural heritage; 

c. its potential to yield information that will contribute to an understanding of South Africa’s natural or cultural heritage; 

d. its importance in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a particular class of South Africa’s natural or cultural places or objects; 

e. its importance in exhibiting particular aesthetic characteristics valued by a community or cultural group; 

f. its importance in demonstrating a high degree of creative or technical achievement at a particular period; 

g. its strong or special association with a particular community or cultural group for social, cultural or spiritual reasons; 

h. its strong or special association with the life or work of a person, group or organisation of importance in the history of South Africa; and 

i. sites of significance relating to the history of slavery in South Africa. 

L. Recommendations including: 

a. An assessment of the potential impact of the development on these sites, relative to sustainable social and economic benefits; 

b. Proposals for mitigation or protection relating to: 

i. possible alternatives in the development that might allow the protection and conservation of the sites; or 

ii. the need for mitigation of adverse impacts; or 

iii. the need to conserve sites because of their high heritage value. 

c. Detailed recommendations with regard to burial grounds and graves. This report must inform the client about the full process and enable SAHRA and HWC to make decisions about permits. It must include: 

i. recommendations for protection of the grave(s) from the impact of the development including possibly mitigation (fencing) and recommendation of need for plans for maintenance (mini-management plan); or 

ii. recommendations for relocation of the grave(s) involving public participation an possibly further archival research, 

iii. or both. 

d. An indication of what must be done at each site

i. If the site is provisionally rated as of Local Significance (Grade III site, see above point K) and graded with Low Significance the recommendation may be that the site be mapped, documented, minimally sampled for radiocarbon dating if organic material is present, and then destroyed (with a permit). 

ii. If the site is provisionally rated as of Local Significance (Grade III site) and graded with Medium Significance the recommendation may be for a measure of mitigation and radiocarbon dating, after which part or the whole site could be destroyed. Mitigation usually involves a requirement to collect or excavate a sample of the cultural and other remains that will adequately allow characterization and dating of the site. The archaeologist will require a permit for the mitigation and should recommend that the developer acquire a permit / permission for destruction so that the recommended mitigation may be monitored. The archaeologist should monitor this and report to HWC to ensure that this is done. 

iii. If the site is provisionally rated as of Local Significance (Grade III site) and graded with High Significance the recommendation may be that it be formally graded and conserved (e.g. provision of boardwalks, fencing, signage, guides), or conserved and protected as a heritage site (either being listed on the Heritage Register or being declared as a Provincial or National Heritage Site). If sites are to be protected, a Conservation Management Plan will be required. 

e. Recommendations for monitoring of vegetation clearance or other development, as appropriate. 

f. Recommendations for sampling during Phase 2 mitigation based on the significance of the information it is likely to produce 

M. Conclusions

N. Bibliography detailing citations in the text of the report. Remember that all sources and publications referring to known archaeological sites in the vicinity should be adequately acknowledged (even the web). 

O. Appendices if any. 

3.2.Phase 1 Archaeological Reports: General Comments  

a. Take into account: 

i. that ephemeral sites may not be unimportant as they may represent the only trace on the landscape of a particular people or period and must be adequately sampled and described so as to supply important information about human presence in the area; 

ii. that bush clearing and construction work (e.g. temporary access roads and camps) may have a strong negative impact on sites; 

iii. that specialists are expected to assess the whole property where the development is targeted. If the whole property is not assessed, the specialist mustindicate why only part of the property is to be affected by short-term and long-term effects of the development; and 

iv. the relative significance of the sites identified in relation to current knowledge of sites in the general area. 

b. Indicate the location of any significant extra documentation or photographic material not included in the report itself. 

c. Provide information and recommendations to the client including the scope of the heritage legislation that applies; the need to apply for permits in good time before disturbing sites in any way; and the need for approval of HWC before the destruction of sites that have been recorded. 

d. Give HWC enough information to assess with confidence whether the recommendations should be approved or modified and whether to issue permission for destruction of sites. 

e. Indicate whether an assessment of the built environment, cultural landscape and/or palaeontological resources are also being commissioned by the developer, and if not, whether this should be done. 

f. Make it clear to the developer that the final decisions about what kind of mitigation or protection is required rest with HWC and that permission is required for destruction. 

g. If a development involves archaeological and/or palaeontological matters only, then the staff serving the APM Committee will issue a ROD. However, if built environment and landscape matters are also part of the proposed project and mitigation, staff serving the APM Committee will issue an initial official letter of comment. Subsequently, staff serving either of these Committees will issue a consolidated ROD where both APM and BELCOM inputs are included. 

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Andrew B. Smith

 

Archaeologist

 

After retirement from UCT, I have worked as an independent heritage consultant in South Africa doing archaeological assessment and mitigation for heritage requirements on the Cape West and South coasts.

I have wide archaeological field experience in USA, Ghana, Egypt, Mali, Niger, Sudan, Namibia and South Africa. Having worked on prehistoric sites and taught in the Archaeology Dept., UCT for the past 30 years, I have intimate knowledge of the background research history of all periods, although my own research has tended to be within the last 2000 years.

I am available for independent consultancy to do NID’s, Phase I and Phase II evaluation, assessment and mitigation of archaeological sites in the Western, Southern and Eastern Cape. This will include fieldwork and reporting that will conform to the requirements for Heritage Western Cape and the South African Heritage Resources Agency within the heritage and environmental legislation.

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CURRICULUM  VITAE

 Andrew Brown Smith

 

PERSONAL INFORMATION

 Born:                            2 January 1941, Glasgow, Scotland, U.K.

 Address:                       Department of Archaeology

                                    University of Cape Town

                                    RONDEBOSCH  7700, South Africa

Telephone:                    University  +27 (021) 6502354/3

                       After hours +27 (021) 6861608

Fax:                              (021) 6502352

e-mail:                          andrew.smith@uct.ac.za

EDUCATION

1958                Scottish Leaving Certificate, Glasgow, Scotland

1968    B.A. Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley

1974    Ph.D. Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley

     (Dissertation on post-palaeolithic human adaptation in the Saharan and Sahel zones of West Africa.)

 

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

 1963-65 Off-shore Navigation Inc. (Shoran Base Station Operator in Persian Gulf and North Africa)

1969-72 Teaching Assistant, Anthropology Department, University of California, Berkeley

1973-75 Lecturer, Archaeology Department, University of Ghana

1977-2006 Associate Professor, Archaeology Department, University of Cape Town

 

 

MEMBERSHIPS, PROFESSIONAL

West African Archaeological Association

Pan-African Association of Prehistory & Quaternary Studies

Royal Society of South Africa

South African Archaeological Society

Honorary Curator National Monuments Council

Fellow of the American Anthropological Association

Association of Southern African Professional Archaeologists

Association of Professional Heritage Practitioners

AWARDS, HONOURS AND GRANTS

 1966    Institute of International Studies Award, Univ.of Oregon

1969-73 University of California, Doctoral Fellowship

1970    Ford Foundation, Traineeship in Archaeology

1972   National Science Foundation Doctoral Research Award

1972-1975 Royal Geographical Society Research Award

1977-82           University of Cape Town, Research Committee Award

1978-81 Oppenheimer Inst. for African Studies Research Award

1978    H.S.R.C. ad hoc Research Award

1983    H.S.R.C. ad hoc Research Award

1984    H.S.R.C.ad hoc Research Award

1985    H.S.R.C. ad hoc Research Award

            Oppenheimer Inst. for African Studies Research Award

1986    H.S.R.C. ad hoc Research Award

1987    H.S.R.C. ad hoc Research Award

1988    H.S.R.C. ad hoc Research Award

1989    H.S.R.C. ad hoc Research Award

1990    H.S.R.C. ad hoc Research Award

1991    H.S.R.C. ad hoc Research Award

            Swan Fund Research Award

1992    H.S.R.C. ad hoc Research Award

            Swan Fund Research Award

1993    URC Award

            Swan Fund Research Award

1994    H.S.R.C. Award

            Swan Fund Research Award

1995    U.R.C. Award

            Swan Fund Research Award

1997    H.S.R.C. Award

2001   Oppenheimer Trust Award

2002    Benedict Distinguished Professor, Carleton College

2004   Oppenheimer Trust Award

2006    President of the South African Archaeological Society

2006    Professor Emeritus, UCT

PUBLICATIONS

 1) Books

1992    Pastoralism in Africa: Origins and Development Ecology. London:Hurst

1993    (with R.H. Pheiffer)  The Khoikhoi at the Cape of Good Hope: 17th Century Drawings in the South African Library. Cape Town: South African Library

1995    Einiqualand:  People of the Orange River Frontier.  Cape Town: UCT Press.

1996    (with C. Malherbe, E. Boonzaier & P. Berens) The Cape Herders. Cape Town: David Philip

2000                (with C. Malherbe, M. Guenther & P. Berens) The Bushmen of Southern Africa: A Foraging Society in Transition. Cape Town: David Philip.

2005  African Herders: Emergence of Pastoral Traditions. Walnut Creek: Altamira Press.

2006    Excavations at Kasteelberg, and the Origins of the Khoekhoen in the Western Cape, South Africa. Oxford: BAR S1537.

2008  (with J.D. Clark et al) Adrar Bous: Archaeology of a Central Saharan Granitic Ring Complex  in Niger. Studies in Human Sciences 170. Musée Royale de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, Belgium.

2) Chapters in Books

1978    Die ersten Haustiere in der Sahara In Kuper, R. (ed.) Sahara. 10,000 Jahre zwischen Weide und Wuste, Museen der Stadt, Koln, 220-221.

1980    The Neolithic Tradition in the Sahara  In Williams, M.A.J. and Faure, H. (eds.)  The Nile and the Sahara  Balkema, Netherlands, pp. 451-465.

1980    Domesticated Cattle in the Sahara and their introduction into West Africa  In Williams, M.A.J. and Faure, H. (eds.)  The Nile and the Sahara, Balkema, Netherlands, pp. 489-501.

1984    Origins of the Neolithic in the Sahara In Clark & Brandt, (eds.) From Hunters to Farmers : Considerations of the Causes and Consequences of Food Production in Africa.  Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, pp. 84-92.

1984    Adaptive Strategies of Prehistoric Pastoralism in the Southwestern Cape In Hall, M.J., Avery, G., Avery D.M.,Wilson M.L. & Humphreys A.J.B. (eds.)  Frontiers:  Southern African Archaeology Today.  Oxford: B.A.R. pp. 131-142.

1986    The Ethnoarchaeology of Pastoralism in the Saharan and Sahel Zones of West Africa  In Liverani, M., Palmieri, A. and Peroni, R. (eds.)  Studi di Paletnologia in Onore di Salvatore M Puglisi.  Rome, Istituto di Paletnologia, pp. 57-70.

1994    Metaphors of space: rock art and territoriality in southern Africa. in Dowson, T.A. & Lewis-Williams, J.D. (eds) Contested Images: Diversity in Southern African Rock Art Research. Wits Univ Press, pp. 373-384.

1994    Khoikhoi (Khoekhoe or Hottentots) in Saunders, C.C. (ed) An Illustrated Dictionary of South African History. Johannesburg: Ibis Books, pp. 151-154.

1994    (with M. Biesele & M. Jacobsohn) African Desert People in Seely, M. (ed) Deserts. Sydney: Weldon Owen, pp. 94-105.

1994    Dutch artists at the Cape in the 17th & 18th centuries, and the development of Khoikhoi iconography in Waher, H. (ed) Rondom Roy. Studies opgedra aan Roy H. Pheiffer. Dept. Afrikaans en Nederlands, UCT, pp.185-196.

1994    The archaeological evidence for indigenous domestic stock in the southwestern Cape in Judson, E. (ed) Conservation of Early Domesticated Animals of Southern Africa. Pretoria: NASCO, pp. 12-26.

1996    Pastoralists, African: Saharan Pastoralists & The Khoikhoi of Southern Africa in Fagan, B.M. (ed) The Oxford Companion to Archaeology,  OUP, pp.560-562.

1996    Khoi/San relationships: marginal differences or ethnicity in Skotnes, P. (ed) Miscast: Negotiating the Presence of the Bushmen. Cape Town: UCT Press, pp. 249-251.

1997    Pastoral Lifeways: Southern African pastoralists.  In Vogel, J.O. (ed)  Encyclopedia of Precolonial Africa.  London:AltaMira Press, pp. 210-213.

1999    Hunters and herders in the Karoo landscape. In Dean, W.R.J. & Dean, S. (eds) The Ecology of the Karoo. Cambridge Univ. Press, pp. 243-256.

1999           Archaeology and evolution of hunters and gatherers. In Lee, R.B. & Daly, R. (eds) The        Cambridge Encyclopedia of Hunter-Gatherers.  Cambridge Univ. Press, pp. 384-390.

2000    The origins of the domesticated animals of southern Africa.  In: Blench, R.M. & MacDonald, K.C. (eds) The Origins and Development of African Livestock: Archaeology, Genetics, Linguistics and Ethnography.  Univ. of London Press, pp. 222-238.

2000   (with Lita Webley) Women and men of the Khoekhoen of Southern Africa. In Hodgson, D. (ed) Rethinking Pastoralism: Gender, Culture and the Myth of the Patriarchal Pastoralist, London : David Currey. pp. 72-96.

2000   The origins of pastoralism in Namibia.  In: Bollig, M. & Gewald, J-B. (eds) People , Cattle and Land. Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, pp. 55-76.

2001    Saharo-Sudanese Neolithic. In: Peregrine, P.N & Ember, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Prehistory, Volume 1: Africa. New York: Kluwer Academic, pp. 245-259.

2002  Les Khoekhoe. In: Joubert, H. & Valentin, M. (eds) Ubuntu: Arts et Cultures d’Afrique du Sud. Paris: Musée national des Arts d’Afrique et d’Océanie, pp. 44-49.

2002   The Pastoral landscape in Saharan prehistory.  In: Lenssen-Erz, T. et al (eds) Tides of the Desert: Festschrift for Rudolf Kuper. Köln: Heinrich-Barth Institut, pp. 447-457.

2004  Animal husbandry, nomadic breeding and domestication of animals. In Squires, V.R. (ed) The Role of Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in Human Nutrition. Encyclopedia of  Life Support Systems, UNESCO. Oxford: Eolss Publishers 1-17.

2005   Desert solitude: the evolution of ideologies amongst pastoralists and hunter-gatherers in arid North Africa.  Veth, P., Smith, M. & Hiscock, P. (eds) Desert Peoples: Archaeological Perspectives. London : Blackwell, pp. 261-275.

2005   The archaeology of hunter-herder interaction in the drylands of southern Africa. In: Smith, M. & Hesse, P. (eds) 23°S:Archaeology and Environmental History of the Southern Deserts. Canberra: National Museum of Australia, pp. 250-266.

2005   Neolithic North Africa (pp. 1081-1082); Domestication, plant and animal, history of (pp. 362-363) in Africa.  In: Shillington, K. (ed) Encyclopedia of African History. London: Fitzroy Dearborn.

2006  Historical perspectives on the rock art of the Sahara and southern Africa. In: Le Quellec, J-L (ed) Hic sunt leones: Melanges sahariens en l’honneur d’Alfred Muzzolini. Cahiers de l’AARS 10:185-197.

2007  Africa, South: Farmers, Herders, and Forager Interaction. Encyclopedia of Archaeology. Oxford: Elsevier.

2008  Early herders in southern Africa: a synthesis. In :Badenhorst, S (ed) Animals and People: Archaeozoological Papers in Honour of Ina Plug.  Oxford: BAR International Series 1849: 94-103.

2008   Is absence of evidence, evidence of absence? Problems in the Archaeology of early herding societies of southern Africa.  The Archaeology of Mobility. UCLA Conference on Nomadism.

in prep Post-glacial transformations in Africa. Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Hunter-Gatherers.

3) Scientific Journal Papers

1973    (With J D Clark & M A J Williams):  The geomorphology and archaeology of Adrar

                        Bous, Central Sahara : a preliminary report. Quaternaria, 17:245-297.

1974    Preliminary report of Excavations at Karkarichinkat Nord and Sud, Tilemsi Valley, Mali, Spring, 1972.  West African J. of Archaeology 4:33-55.

1975    A note on the flora and fauna from the postpalaeolithic sites of Karkarichinkat Nord and Sud.  West African J. of Archaeology  5:201-204

1975    Radiocarbon dates from Bosumpra Cave, Abetifi, Ghana.  Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 41:179-182.

1978    (With M R Ripp & S B Lane)  An archaeological Reconnaissance of the Doorn/Tanqua Karoo.  South African Archaeological Bulletin 33(128):118-133.

1978    Terracottas from the Tilemsi Valley, Mali. Bull. I.F.A.N., ser. B, 40 (2):223-234.

1979    Biogeographical Considerations of Colonization of the Lower Tilemsi Valley in the 2nd Millenium B.C.  J. of Arid Environments 2:355-361.

1979    Analyse topologique de l’industrie lithique du site de Tintan  In Petit-Maire, N. (ed.)  Le Sahara Atlantique a l’Holocene : peuplement et ecologie.  Memoire du C.R.A.P.E.  28:269-70.

1981    An Archaeological Investigation of Holocene Deposits at Rooiels Cave, South-Western Cape.  S. African Archaeological Bull. 36:75-83.

1981    The French Period at the Cape, 1781-1783 : a report on excavations at Conway Redoubt, Constantia Nek.  Military History Journal 5(3):107-113.

1983    Prehistoric pastoralism in the Southwestern Cape, South Africa.  World Archaeology 15(1):79-89.

1983    The Hotnot Syndrome: myth-making in South African School textbooks.  Social Dynamics 9(2):37-49.

1984    Environmental limitations on prehistoric pastoralism in Africa  African Archaeological Review, 2:99-111.

1984    The Origins of Food Production in Northeaast Africa In Van Zinderen Bakker, E.M. & Coetzee, J.A. (eds.)  Palaeoecology of Africa 16:317-324.  Balkema, Netherlands.

1984    (With J. Kinahan):  The invisible whale.  World Archaeology  16(1):89-97.

1985    (With M. Patrick and A.J. de Koning):  Gas liquid chromatographic analysis of fatty acids in food residues from ceramics found int he Southwestern Cape, South Africa. Archaeometry 27(2):231-236.

1986    Competition, Conflict and Clientship : Khoi and San Relationships in the Western Cape  In Hall, M. and Smith, A.B. (eds.)  Prehistoric Pastoralism in Southern Africa. South African Archaeological Society, Goodwin Series 5:36-41.

1984-86 Development of Khoikhoi society in South Africa : Implications for pastoral archaeology. Origini 13:409-424.

1986    Excavations at Plettenberg Bay, South Africa of the campsite of the survivors of the wreck of the São Gonçalo, 1630.  Int. J. of Nautical Archaeology and Underwater Exploration 15:53-63.

1986    Comment on ‘Striated Grinding Grooves in Central Africa”  by R. Derricourt  S. African Archaeol. Bulletin  41:93-94.

1986    Review Article:  Cattle Domestication in North Africa. African Archaeological Review 4:197-203.

1988    (With C. Poggenpoel)  The technology of bone tool fabrication from the Southwestern Cape, South Africa.  World Archaeology 20(1):103-115.

1989    Khoikhoi susceptibility to virgin soil epidemics in the 18th Century.  South African Medical Journal 75:25-6.

1990    (with E.A. Boonzaier, M.T. Hoffman & F.M. Archer) Communal land use and the ‘tragedy of the commons’ some problems and development perspectives with specific reference to semi-arid regions of southern Africa. J. Grassland Soc. South. Afr.7:2:77-80.

1990    The origins and demise of the Khoikhoi: the debate. South African Historical J. 23: 3-14.

1990    Gordon on Sparrman. Quart. Bull. S.A. Library. 45:2:72-77.

1990    On becoming herders: Khoikhoi and San ethnicity in Southern Africa. African Studies 49:2:51-73

1991    (with K. Sadr) On ceramic variation in the South-western Cape, South Africa.  S. Afr. Archaeol. Bull. 46: 107-114

1991    (with K. Sadr, J. Gribble & R. Yates) Excavations in the South-western Cape South Africa, and the archaeological identity of prehistoric hunter-gatherers within the last 2000 years.  S. Afr. Archaeol. Bull. 46: 71-91

1992    Col Robert Gordon’s notes on the Khoikhoi, 1779-80.  Annals South African Cultural History Museum 5: 1: 1-56.

1992    (with S. Woodborne, E.C. Lamprechts & F.R. Riley) Marine Mammal Storage: Analysis of Buried Seal Meat at the Cape, South Africa. J. of Archaeological Science 19: 171-180

1992    Origins and spread of pastoralism in Africa.  Annual Review of Anthropology 21:125-141.

1993    Different facets of the crystal: early European images of the Khoikhoi at the Cape, South Africa. in Hall, M. & Markell, A (eds) Historical Archaeology in the Western Cape, Goodwin Series 7, South African Archaeological Society, pp. 8-20.

1993    Marine mammal exploitation by prehistoric Cape herders.  South African J. of Science 89:162-165.

1993    (with Royden Yates) A reevaluation of the chronology of Oudepost: a reply in part to Schrire. South African Archaeological Bulletin 48:52-3

1993    (with Royden Yates) Ideology and hunter/herder archaeology in the South Western Cape. Southern African Field Archaeology 2:2:96-104

1993    Origins and spread of pastoralism in Africa.  Nomadic Peoples 32:91-105

1994    (with R.H. Pheiffer) Letter from Robert Jacob Gordon to Hendrik Fagel, 1779. Brenthurst Archives 1(2)

1995    (with L. Jacobson) Excavations at Geduld and the appearance of early domestic stock in N. Namibia. S. African Archaeol. Bull. 50:3-14.

1995    Drawings of the Khoikhoi at the Cape of Good Hope: an update and response to Schrire. S. African Archaeol. Bull. 50:83-86.

1996       (with Royden Yates & Leon Jacobson) Geduld contra Kinahan.                                                                                                                                                               

South African Archaeological Bulletin 51:36-39.

1996      The Kalahari Bushmen Debate: implications for archaeology of Southern Africa. S. African Historical J. 35:1-15.

1997       (with R.B. Lee) Cho/ana: archaeological and ethnohistorical evidence for recent hunter-gatherer/pastoralist contact in Northern Bushmanland, Namibia. S. African Archaeological Bulletin 52:52-58

1997    (with C.A. Bollong & C.G. Sampson) Khoikhoi and Bushman pottery in the Cape Colony: Ethnohistory and Later Stone Age ceramics of the South African interior. J. of Anthropological Archaeology 16:269-299.

1997    Keeping hunters on the periphery: the ideology of social hierarchies between Khoikhoi and Soaqua. Kronos 24:9-17

1998    Khoesaan orthography. South African Archaeological Bulletin 53: 37-8.

1998    Keeping people on the periphery: the ideology of social hierarchies between hunters and herders. J. of Anthropological Archaeology 17:201-215.

1998    Early domestic stock in Southern Africa: A Commentary. African Archaeological Review 15 (2):151-156.

1999     The archaeology of the Ju/’hoansi Bushmen. Milan: Archeologia Africana 5:75-84

2000   Ideas on the Later Cultural History of the Central Sahara.  Sahara 12: 101-106.

2001   Public and hidden transcripts: a response to Cronk and Dickson. J. of Anthropological Archaeology 20:122-124.

2001    Ethnohistory and archaeology of the Ju/’hoansi Bushmen. African Study Monographs, Suppl. 26: 15-25.

2001    (with Dave Halkett, Tim Hart & Belinda Mütti) Spatial patterning, cultural identity and site integrity on open sites: evidence from Bloedrift 23, a pre-colonial herder camp in the Richtersveld, Northern Cape Province, South Africa.  South African Archaeological Bulletin 56:23-33.

2002    (with Marie Balasse, Stanley Ambrose & T.Douglas Price) The seasonality mobility model for prehistoric herders in the south-western Cape of South Africa assessed by isotopic analysis of sheep enamel. J. of Archaeological Science 29: 917-932.

2003     (with Marie Balasse, Stanley Ambrose & Steven Leigh) Determining birth seasonality by analysis of tooth enamel oxygen isotope ratios: the Late Stone Age site of Kasteelberg (South Africa). J. of Archaeological Science 30: 205-215.

2003  (with K. Sadr, I. Plug, J. Orton & B. Mutti) Herders and foragers on Kasteelberg. South African Archaeological Bulletin 58: 27-32.

2003   Préhistoire des pasteurs sahariens actuels. Bulletin de la Société préhistorique Ariège-Pyrénées 58: 251-268.

2004   A prehistory of modern Saharan pastoralists. Sahara 15:  43-58.

2005   The concepts of ‘Neolithic’ and ‘Neolithisation’ for Africa. Before Farming 1, article 2: 1-6.

2005   Origins and spread of African pastoralism. Blackwell History-Compass 4 (1): 1-7.

2006    Kasteelberg, a sealing camp of Cape herders in the Western Cape Province, South Africa. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 1 (1): 109-122.

2008         Pastoral origins at the Cape, South Africa: influences and arguments. Southern African Humanities 20: 49-60.

2009 (with B. Mutti) A simple measure of intensity of human occupation of shell density as seen on the Vredenburg Peninsula coast. South African Archaeological Bulletin 64: 172-175.

2009 Hegemony of the Neolithic: or what we have lost by becoming food producers. South African Archaeological Bulletin 64: 100-103.

2009 Guest Editorial: A Born Again CRM Practitioner. South African Archaeological Bulletin 64: 99

2009 Pastoralism in the Western Cape Province, South Africa: a retrospective review. Journal of African Archaeology 7 (2)

4) Conference Proceedings

1976    A microlithic industry from Adrar Bous, Tenere Desert, Niger.  Proceedings of the 7th Pan-african Congress of Prehistory Addis Ababa, pp. 181-196.

1980    Saharan and Sahel Zone Environmental Conditions – the Later Pleistocene and Early Holocene. Proceedings of the 8th Pan African Congress of Prehistory , Nairobi, pp. 139-142.

1988    The Near Eastern Connection.  Early to Mid-Holocene relations between N. Africa and Levant  In Krzyzaniak, L and M. Kobusiewicz (eds.)  Late Prehistory of the Nile Basin and the Sahara, Poznan:  Muzeum Archeologiczne, pp. 69-77.

1990    (with I. Thackeray) The Black Hole of South African School History Syllabi. in Olivier, A.I.(ed) National Subject Didactics Symposium, Univ.of Stellenbosch, pp.510-519.

1991    Adjusting to drought conditions in an event-driven system: an example from a Namaqualand reserve.  Proc. of Conference on Pastoral Economies in Africa and Long-Term Responses to Drought. Univ. of Aberdeen, pp. 109-115

1991    Early Khoi Drawings in the South African Library. In Bibliophilia Africana VI.  Proc. 6th South African Conference of Bibliophiles. Cape Town: South African Library, pp. 98-106

1993    New Approaches to Saharan Rock Art. in Calegari, G. (ed) L’Arte e l’Ambiente del Sahara Preistorico: Dati e Interpretazioni. Memorie della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano, pp. 466-78.

1993    Terminal Palaeolithic industries of Sahara: a discussion of new data.  In Krzyzaniak, L. (ed) Environmental Change and Human Culture in the Nile Basin and Northern Africa until 2nd Millenium B.C. Poznan: Muzeum Archeologiczne, pp. 69-75.

1993    New approaches to Saharan rock art of the Bovidian Period. In Krzyzaniak, L. (ed) Environmental Change and Human Culture in the Nile Basin and Northern Africa until 2nd Millenium B.C. Poznan: Muzeum Archeologiczne, pp. 77-89.

1996         The ‘Neolithic': a barbaric concept for the Sahara? Colloquium XXX, The Prehistory of Africa, IUSPP Congress, Forli, Italy, Vol.15:219-223.

1996         The archaeological evidence for pre-Colonial hunter/herder ethnicity at the Cape, South Africa in Pwiti, G. & Soper, R. (eds) Aspects of African Archaeology. Harare: Univ. of Zimbabwe, pp. 469-476

1996       The Near Eastern connection II: cultural contacts with the Nile Delta and the Sahara in Krzyzaniak, L., Kroeper, K. & Kobusiewcz, M. (eds) Interregional Contacts in the Later Prehistory of Northeastern Africa. Poznan Archaeological Museum, pp. 29-35.

1998        Intensification and transformation processes towards food production in Africa. In di Lernia, S. & Manzi, G. (eds) Before Food Production in North Africa: Questions and Tools Dealing with Resource Exploitation and Population Dynamics at 12,000-7000 B.P. Proceedings of Workshop 14, XIII IUSPP, Forli, Italy , pp. 19-33.

1998        Hunters on the periphery: the ideology of social hierarchies between Khoikhoi and Soaqua.  In Bank, A. (ed) The Proceedings of the Khoisan Identities and Cultural Heritage Conference. Cape Town: Institute for Historical Research, University of the Western Cape, pp. 74-79.

2005 Creating a landscape for Saharan pastoral archaeology. In Barich, B.E., Tillet, T. & Striedter, K.H. (eds) Hunters vs. Pastoralists in the Sahara: Material Culture and Symbolic Aspects. Oxford: BAR International Series 1338: 47-50.

2006  Ideological inhibitors to hunters becoming food producers in Africa. Proceedings of the 18th Biennial Meeting of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists, Calgary, June 2006. http://cohesion.rice.edu/CenterAndInst/SAFA/emplibrary/Smith,A.SAFA2006.pdf

5) Contract Reports

2007         (with B.J. Mutti & M.Patrick) Archaeological Test Excavations: Erf 460 St. Helena Bay, Vredenburg Magisterial District, Western Cape.

                   (with B.J. Mutti & M.Patrick) Archaeological Test Excavations: Erven 55 and 462 St. Helena Bay, Vredenburg Magisterial District

2008          (with B.J. Mutti and T. Manyaapelo) Report on the Exhumation of Human Skeletal Remains from Portion 37 of Farm Uitkomst 23 – Saldanha Bay Municipality 2008

                   (with B.J. Mutti and M.Patrick) Report on Archaeological Test Excavations:Remainder of Farm 26 Paternoster 2008

                   (with B.J. Mutti) Scoping Survey of Erven 4067 and 4439 Simonstown

                   (with B.J. Mutti and M.Patrick)) Report on Archaeological Test Excavations: Portion 20 of Farm 108 Jacobsbaai

                   (with B.J. Mutti and M.Patrick) Baseline Archaeological Impact Assessment Report on Madwaleni Hospital Access Road: Transkei

                   (with B.J. Mutti) An Archaeological Assessment of Lagoon Garden Estate: Erven 1992 and 2646 – Great Brak River

                   (with B.J. Mutti & M.Patrick) Archaeological Test Excavations: Erven 35 and 40 St Helena Bay – Vredenburg Magisterial District

2009           (with B.J. Mutti and M.Patrick) Report on Additional Archaeological Test Excavations:Remainder of Farm 26 Paternoster

                  (with M.Patrick, B.J. Mutti, S.Winter, N.Baumann, H.Clift, T. Clarke and J. Almond)      Final Scoping Heritage Impact Assessment: Gamma-Omega 765 Kv Transmission Line

                   (with B.J. Mutti) Draft Report on Test Excavations at Fort Wynyard – Erven 1252,1253,1056 Cape Town

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Stephen Stead

 

Visual Impact Assessment – GIS Mapping

  

 VRM Africa cc is a Visual Impact Study and GIS Mapping organisation located in George, Western Cape.  We make use of the well-documented visual impact analysis methodology developed by the Bureau of Land Management in the USA in order to accurately and objectively quantify visual impact.  This methodology is known as the Visual Resource Management technique (VRM) and involves the sequential mapping of visual resources of the site in relation to the surrounding areas. For this purpose we make extensive use of GIS and 3D modelling technology. In this endeavor, we have an extended network of other expert consultants and work closely together with Liesel Stokes of Brink, Stokes, Mhkize, a registered Landscape Architect. 

During the period that we have been operating we have completed over 80 Visual Impact Studies throughout South Africa as well as Namibia where we have been involved in setting up visual management guidelines for large open cast mines.  The majority of studies undertaken have been based in the Western Cape ensuring we have extensive practical experience assessing projects in terms of the planning policies stipulated by the DEA&DP Guidelines and the Western Cape PSDF. 

Stephen Stead

Stephen Stead studied at the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg (UNP) and completed a post graduate degree in Human Geography and Geographic Information Management Systems.  He has gained 12 years of experience in the field of GIS mapping working as a consultant for the KZN Dept of Health and as a consultant for an Environmental Impact Assessment organization in George, Western Cape.  He is a member of IAIAsa South Africa and is currently serving on the National Executive Committee (NEC).  VRM Africa recognizes and aspires to the IAIAsa code of ethics.  For further details refer to www.vrma.co.za .

Visual Resource Management Africa cc

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Peter Nilssen

Archaeologist & Heritage Practitioner

 

for more about Peter click the following link –

http://www.carm.co.za/index.php/peter/

and for his CV click below

http://www.carm.co.za/index.php/2010/01/24/peters-cv/

 

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Richard G. Klein

 

Archaeologist – Anthropologist – Faunal Specialist – Human Evolution

Richard’s work is highly influentual in, among others, archaeological and palaeontological circles around the world.  His methodologies developed for the analysis of animal bones from archaeological sites are in use since the early 1980’s.

Richard in the field on the West coast of the Western Cape, South Africa. No matter what the occasion, this is Richard's style.

Richard writes; “My primary interest is in the co-evolution of anatomy and behavior in human evolution.  My research is mainly on ancient animal remains as indicators of early human ability to make a living.  I have analyzed more than 100 assemblages of animal fossils, primarily from southern African archaeological sites dating between 700,000 years ago and the historic present.  I am currently directing excavations at a site 70 km NNW of Cape Town that dates from the Last Interglacial interval, between roughly 115,000 and 70,000 years ago.  The animal remains show that the inhabitants exploited coastal resources much less efficiently than people who occupied the same coast during Present Interglacial (Holocene). The change in foraging efficiency probably occurred about 50,000 years ago and it helps explain the simultaneous expansion of anatomically modern humans from Africa to Eurasia, where they replaced the Neanderthals and other non-modern Eurasians.”

The below is Richard’s “medium vita”.  When I opened the below file, I could not help wondering what the “high vita” looks like.

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Richard G. Klein, Curriculum Vitae, 1 January 2010

Address: Program in Human Biology, Building 20, Inner Quad, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-2160

Phone: Office 1 (650) 725-9819; Home 1 (650) 852-0775; Mobile 1 (650) 575-5643

Email: rklein@stanford.edu

Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois

Marital Status: Married (Gail Ann Christensen Klein)

Degrees:  A. B., University of Michigan, 1962.

M. A., University of Chicago, 1964.

Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1966.

Positions Held:

Sept. 1966 – June 1967                Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Sept. 1967 – Aug. 1969                 Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Northwestern University

Sept. 1969 – Aug. 1973                 Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Washington

Sept. 1973 – Aug. 1977                 Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Chicago

Sept. 1977 – June 1993                Professor of Anthropology, University of Chicago

July 1993 – Sept. 2007                  Professor of Anthropology, Stanford University

Dec. 2002 – present                       Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University

Sept. 2007 – present                      Professor of Biology and Anthropology, Stanford University

Research Interests: Interrelation of cultural, biological, and environmental change in human evolution; Reconstruction of environment, ecology, and human behavior from animal remains in archeological sites.

Geographic Research Area: southern Africa.

Books (Authored):

2009      The Human Career: Human Biological and Cultural Origins.  Chicago, University of Chicago Press.  Third Edition.

2002      The Dawn of Human Culture.  New York: John Wiley & Sons (with Blake Edgar).

1999      The Human Career: Human Biological and Cultural Origins.  Chicago, University of Chicago Press.  Second Edition.

1989      The Human Career: Human Biological and Cultural Origins.  Chicago, University of Chicago Press.

1984      The Analysis of Animal Bones from Archeological Sites .  Chicago, University of Chicago Press.  (with K. Cruz-Uribe).

1973      Ice-Age Hunters of the Ukraine.  Chicago, University of Chicago Press.

1969      Man and Culture in the Late Pleistocene: A Case Study.  San Francisco, Chandler.

Books (Edited):

1999      Archaeozoology in Africa (with Ina Plug).  Grenoble, La Pensée Sauvage.

1984      Quaternary Extinctions: A Prehistoric Revolution. (with P. S. Martin).  Tucson, University of Arizona Press.

1984      Southern African Prehistory and Paleoenvironments.  Rotterdam, A. A. Balkema.

Articles:

in press Large mammals and tortoises.  In (Parkington, J. E., ed.) Elands Bay Cave: A View of the Past, Chapter 7.  Tübingen Series in Palaeolithic Studies: in press. (with K. Cruz-Uribe).

2010      Eland, buffalo, and wild pigs: are they equally abundant in Middle and Later Stone Age sites?  Journal of Human Evolution: in press (with T. D. Weaver and T. E. Steele).

2010      Morphometric identification of bovid metapodials to genus and implications for taxon-free habitat reconstruction. Journal of Archaeological Science 37: 389-401 (with R. G. Franciscus and T. E. Steele).

2009      Darwin and the recent African origin of modern humans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106 (38): 16007–16009.

2009      Mogapelwa:  Archaeology, paleoenvironment and oral traditions at Lake Ngami, Botswana.  South African Archaeological Bulletin 64 (189): 13–32. (with L.H. Robbins,  A. C. Campbell,   M. L. Murphy, G. A. Brook,  A. A. Mabuse,  R. K. Hitchcock,  G. Babutsi,  M. Mmolawa,  K.M. Stewart,  Teresa E. Steele, and C. C. Appleton).

2009      Late Pleistocene subsistence strategies and resource intensification in Africa.  In (Hublin, J.-J. and Richards, M. P., eds).  The Evolution of Hominid Diets: Integrating Approaches to the Study of Palaeolithic Subsistence: 111-124.  New York: Springer Publishing (with T. E. Steele).

2009      Hominin dispersals in the Old World.  In (Scarre, C. Ed.) The Human Past: World Prehistory & the Development of Human Societies, Second Edition, 84-123.  London: Thames & Hudson.

2008      Out of Africa and the evolution of human behavior.  Evolutionary Anthropology 17 (6): 267-281.

2008      The Ysterfontein 1 Middle Stone Age Rockshelter and the evolution of coastal foraging.  South African Archaeological Society Goodwin Series 10: 66-89 (with G. Avery, D. Halkett, M. Tusenius, J. Orton, and T. E. Steele).

2008      Intertidal shellfish Use during the Middle and Later Stone Age of South Africa.  Archaeofauna 17: 63-76 (with T. E. Steele).

2007      The mammalian fauna associated with a fossil hominin skull and later Acheulean artifacts at Elandsfontein, Western Cape Province, South Africa.  Journal of Human Evolution 52: 164-186. (with Graham Avery, Kathryn Cruz-Uribe, and Teresa Steele).

2005/06 Mollusk and tortoise size as proxies for stone age population density in South Africa: implications for the evolution of human cultural capacity.  Munibe 57: 221-237 (with T. E. Steele).

2005      The evolution of human walking.  In (Rose, J. and Gamble, J. G., Eds.) Human Walking: 23-32.  Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams  & Wilkins (with T. D. Weaver).

2005      Hominin dispersals in the Old World.  In (Scarre, C. Ed.) The Human Past: World Prehistory & the Development of Human Societies: 84-123.  London: Thames & Hudson.

2004      Tortoises as food and taphonomic elements in palaeo “landscapes”.  In (Brugal, J.-Ph. And Desse, J. Eds.) Petits Animaux et Sociétés Humains: Du complement alimentaire aux resources utilitaires: 147-161.  Antibes: Editions APOCA (with G. Avery, A. W. Kandel, N.J. Conard, and K. Cruz-Uribe).

2004      The Ysterfontein 1 Middle Stone Age site, South Africa, and early human exploitation of coastal  resources.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 101: 5708-5715.  (with G, Avery,  D. Halkett,  J. E. Parkington, T. E. Steele, T. P. Volman and R. Yates).

2003      First Excavation of Intact Middle Stone Age Layers at Ysterfontein, Western Cape Province, South Africa: Implications for Middle Stone Age Ecology. Journal of Archaeological Science 30: 955-971 (with G. Avery, K. Cruz-Uribe, D. Halkett, T. Hart, J. Orton, J. E. Parkington, T. P. Volman, and R. Yates).

2003      Excavation of buried Late Acheulean (Mid-Quaternary) land Surfaces at Duinefontein 2, Western Cape Province, South Africa.  Journal of Archaeological Science 30: 559-575  (with G. Avery, M. Avery, K. Cruz-Uribe, D. Halkett, T. Hart, R. G. Milo, and T. P. Volman).

2003      Whither the Neanderthals?  Science 299: 1525-1527.

2002      Foreword to The Acheulian Site of Gesher Benot Ya’akov, Israel: The Wood Assemblage by Naama Goren-Inbar, Ella Werker, and Craig S. Feibel, pp. vii-viii.  Oxford: Oxbow Books.

2002      The origin of modern humans.  In (Pagel, Mark, Ed.) Encyclopedia of Evolution, pp. 738-740.  New York: Oxford University Press.

2002      Foreword to Desolate Landscapes: Ice-Age Settlements in Eastern Europe by John F. Hoffecker, pp. xv-xvi.  New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.

2001      Fully modern humans.  In (Price, T. D., and Feinman, G., eds.)  Archaeology at the Millennium, pp. 109-135.  New York: Plenum Press.

2001      Blombos Cave, Southern Cape, South Africa: Preliminary Report on the 1992 – 1999 Excavations of the Middle Stone Age Levels.  Journal of Archaeological Science 28: 421-448 (with C. S. Henshilwood, J. C. Sealy, R. Yates, K. Cruz-Uribe, P. Goldberg, F. E. Grine, C. Poggenpoel, K. van Niekerk,  and I. Watts).

2001      Southern Africa and modern human origins.  Journal of Anthropological Research 57: 1-16.

2000      The Earlier Stone Age of Southern Africa.  South African Archaeological Bulletin 27: 107-122.

2000      Macromammals and reptiles.  In (Barham, L., ed.) The Middle Stone Age of Zambia, South Central Africa, 51-56.  Bristol: Western Academic & Specialist Press (with Kathryn Cruz-Uribe).

2000      Archaeology, paleoenvironment, and chronology of the Tsodilo Hills White Paintings Rock Shelter, northwest Kalahari Desert, Botswana.  Journal of Archaeological Science 27: 1085-1113. (with L. H. Robbins, M. L. Murphy, G. A. Brook, A. H. Ivester, R. G. Milo, K. M. Stewart, W. S. Downey, and N. J. Stevens).

2000      L’art et-il né d’une mutation génétique?  La Recherche Hor-Série 4 (Novembre 2000): 18-21.  (Reprinted 2005 in Homo sapiens: l’Odyssée de l’Espèce, pp. 219-226.  Paris, Tallandier; 2006 in La Naissance de l’Art.  Paris, Tallandier).

2000      Human evolution and large mammal extinctions.  In (Vrba, E. S. and Schaller, G. S. eds.) Antelopes, Deer, and Relatives, Present and Future: Fossil Record, Behavioral Ecology, Systematics, and Conservation, pp. 128-139. New Haven: Yale University Press.

2000      Archeology and the evolution of human behavior.  Evolutionary Anthropology 9(1):  17-36.

2000      Middle and Later Stone Age large mammal and tortoise remains from Die Kelders Cave 1, Western Cape Province, South Africa Journal of Human Evolution 38: 169-195. (with K. Cruz-Uribe).

2000      Middle Stone Age stratigraphy and excavations at Die Kelders Cave 1 (Western Cape province, South Africa): the 1992, 1993, and 1995 field seasons. Journal of Human Evolution 38: 7-42 (with C. W. Marean, P. Goldberg, G. Avery, and F. E. Grine)

1999      Fur seal bones reveal variability in prehistoric human seasonal movements on the southwest African coast.  ArchaeoZoologia 10: 181-188 (with K. Cruz-Uribe and J. D. Skinner).

1999      Paleoenvironmental and human behavioral implications of the Boegoeberg 1 late Pleistocene hyena den, Northern Cape Province, South Africa.  Quaternary Research 52: 393-403 (with K. Cruz-Uribe, T. Hart, D. Halkett, and J. E. Parkington).

1999      Skeletal part representation in archaeofaunas: Comments on “Explaining the ‘Klasies Pattern’: Kua Ethnoarchaeology, the Die Kelders Middle Stone Age archaeofauna, long bone fragmentation and carnivore ravaging” by Bartram and Marean.  Journal of Archaeological Science 26: 1225-1234. (with K. Cruz-Uribe and R. G. Milo)

1999      Duinefontein 2: an Acheulean site in the Western Cape Province of South Africa.  Journal of Human Evolution 36: 153-190. (with G. Avery, K. Cruz-Uribe, D. Halkett, T. Hart, R. G. Milo, and T. P. Volman).

1999      Craniometry of the genus Equus and the Taxonomic Affinities of the Extinct South African Quagga.  South African Journal of Science 95(2): 81-86 (with K. Cruz-Uribe).

1998      Why anatomically modern humans did not disperse from Africa 100,000 years ago.  In (Bar-Yosef, O., Akazawa, A., and Aoki, K., eds.)  Neanderthals and Modern Humans in West Asia, pp. 509-521.  New York: Plenum Press.

1998      Additional human fossils from Klasies River Mouth, South Africa.  Journal of Human Evolution 35 (1): 95-107. (with F. E. Grine, O. M. Pearson, and G. P. Rightmire).

1998      Hyrax and hare bones from modern South African eagle roosts and the detection of eagle involvement in fossil assemblages. Journal of Archaeological Science 25: 135-147 (with K. Cruz-Uribe).

1997      The 1992-93 Excavations at the Die Kelders Middle and Late Stone Age Cave Site, South Africa. Journal of Field Archaeology 24(3): 263-291.  (with G. Avery, K.Cruz-Uribe, P. Goldberg, F. E. Grine, C. W. Marean, H. P. Schwarcz, A. I. Thackeray, and M. L. Wilson.)

1996      Exploitation of large bovids and seals at Middle and Later Stone Age sites in South Africa. Journal of Human Evolution 31: 315-334. (with K. Cruz-Uribe).

1996      Size variation in the rock hyrax (Procavia capensis) and late Quaternary climatic change in South Africa.  Quaternary Research 46: 193-207. (with K. Cruz-Uribe).

1996      Neanderthals and modern humans in West Asia: a conference summary.  Evolutionary Anthropology 4 (6): 187-193.

1996      Observations on the Acheulean occupation site of Ambrona (Soria Province, Spain) with particular reference to recent investigations (1980-1983) and the lower occupation.  Jahrbuch des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums Mainz 38, 33-82. (with F. C. Howell, K. W. Butzer, and L. G. Freeman.)

1996      Prehistoric human adaptation to Last and Present Interglacial conditions on the southern coast of Africa.  Abstracts of the Fourteenth Biennial Meeting of the American Quaternary Association: 16-18.

1996      The identification of Equus skulls to species, with particular reference to the craniometric and systematic affinities of the extinct South African quagga.  In (K. Stewart and K. Seymour, Eds.) Palaeoecology and Palaeoenvironments of Late Cenozoic Mammals: Tributes to the Career of C. S. (Rufus) Churcher, pp. 598-629.  Toronto, University of Toronto Press. (with K. Cruz-Uribe).

1996      Paleoenvironment and archaeology of Drotsky’s Cave: Western Kalahari Desert, Botswana.  Journal of Archaeological Science 22, 7-22. (with L. H. Robbins, M. L. Murphy, N. J. Stevens, G. A. Brook, A. H. Ivester, K. A. Haberyan, R. G. Milo, K. M. Stewart, D. G. Matthiesen, and A. J. Winkler.)

1995      Anatomy, behavior, and modern human origins. Journal of World Prehistory 9: 167-198.

1995      The Tor Hamar Fauna.  In (D. O. Henry Ed.) Prehistoric Cultural Ecology and Evolution: Insights from Southern Jordan.  New York: Plenum Press, pp. 405-416.

1995      Anthropology (Update).  Science Year, 200-202.  Chicago, World Book Corporation.

1995      Dating and context of three Middle Stone Age sites with bone points in the Upper Semliki Valley, Zaire.  Science 268, 548-553.  (with A. S. Brooks. D. M. Helgren,  J. S. Cramer, A. Franklin, W. Hornyak, J. Keating, W. J. Rink, H. Schwarcz,  J. N. Leith Smith, K. Stewart,  N. E. Todd, J. Verniers, and J. E. Yellen).

1994      The long-horned African buffalo (Pelorovis antiquus) is an extinct species.  Journal of Archaeological Science 21, 725-733.

1994      Anthropology (Update).  Science Year, pp. 208-211.  Chicago, World Book Corporation.

1994      The Paleolithic mammalian fauna from the 1910-14 excavations at El Castillo Cave (Cantabria).  Festschrift for Joaquín González Echegaray.  Centro de Investigacion y Museo de Altamira, Monografiyas 17, 141-158. (with K. Cruz-Uribe).

1994      Southern Africa before the Iron Age.  In (R. S. Corruccini & R. L. Ciochon, Eds.) Integrative Paths to the Past: Paleoanthropological Advances in Honor of F. Clark Howell, pp. 471-519.  Englewood Cliffs (N. J.): Prentice-Hall.

1994      Chew marks and cut marks on animal bones from the Kasteelberg B and Dune Field Midden Later Stone Age sites, western Cape Province, South Africa.  Journal of Archaeological Science 21, 35-49.  (with K. Cruz-Uribe).

1994      An introduction to the problem of modern human origins.  In (M. H. Nitecki and V. Nitecki, Eds.) Origins of Anatomically Modern Human, pp. 3-17.  New York, Plenum Press.

1993      The ecological and archeological significance of rock hyrax bones from modern eagle roosts in South Africa.  In (A. T. Clason, S. Payne, and  H.-P. Uerpmann, Eds.), pp. 117-134.   Skeletons in her Cupboard.  Festchrift for Juliet Clutton-Brock.  Oxbow Monograph 34.  Oxford: Oxbow Books.  (with K. Cruz-Uribe).

1993      Anthropology (Update).  Science Year, pp. 205-208.  Chicago, World Book Corporation.

1993      Hunter-gatherers and farmers in Africa.  In (Burenhult, G., Ed.)  People of the Stone Age: Hunter Gatherers and Early Farmers, 39-55.  San Francisco, HarperCollins.

1993      Late Pleistocene Human Remains from the Sea Harvest Site, Saldanha Bay, South Africa.  The South African Journal of Science 89: 145-152 (with F. E. Grine).

1992      The impact of early people on their environment: the case of large mammal extinctions.  In (J. E. Jacobsen & J. Firor, Eds.) Human Impact on the  Environment: Ancient Roots, Current Challenges, pp. 13-34.   Boulder (Colorado), Westview Press.

1992      The archeology of modern human origins.  Evolutionary Anthropology 1: 5-14.

1992      Anthropology (Update).  Science Year, pp. 231-233.  Chicago, World Book Corporation.

1991      Dating, archaeology and human fossils from the Middle Stone Age Layers of Die Kelders Cave 1, South Africa.  The Journal of Human Evolution 21: 363-395 (with F. E. Grine & T. P. Volman.)

1991      The bovids from Elandsfontein, South Africa, and their implications for the age, paleoenvironment, and origins of the site.  The African Archaeological Review 9: 21-79. (with K. Cruz-Uribe.)

1991      Size variation in the Cape Dune Molerat (Bathyergus suillus) and Late Quaternary climatic change in the Southwestern Cape Province, South Africa.  Quaternary Research. 36: 243-256.

1991      Environmental, ecological, and paleoanthropological implications of the Late Pleistocene mammalian fauna from Equus Cave, northern Cape Province, South Africa.  Quaternary Research 36: 94-119 (with K. Cruz-Uribe & P. B. Beaumont.)

1989      Faunal Evidence for Prehistoric Herder-Forager Activities at Kasteelberg, Vredenburg Peninsula, western Cape Province, South Africa.  South African Archaeological Bulletin 44: 82-97 (with K. Cruz-Uribe.)

1989      Biological and behavioural perspectives on modern human origins in southern Africa.  In (P. Mellars & C. Stringer, Eds.) The Human Revolution: Behavioural and Biological Perspectives on the Origins of Modern Humans: 529-546.  Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press.

1989      Why does skeletal part representation differ between smaller and larger bovids at Klasies River Mouth and other archeological sites?  Journal of Archaeological Science 16: 363-381.

1989      Glacial/interglacial size variation in fossil spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta) from Britain.  Quaternary Research 32: 88-95 (with K. Scott).

1988      The causes of “robust” australopithecine extinction.  In (F. E. Grine, Ed.) The Evolutionary History of the Robust Australopithecines: 499-505.  New York, Aldine de Gruyter.

1988      The archaeological significance of animal bones from Acheulean sites in southern Africa.  The African Archaeological Review 6: 3-26.

1988      Dimensions of research at El Juyo (an earlier Magdalenian site in Cantabrian Spain).  In (H. Dibble, & A. Montet-White, Eds.) Upper Pleistocene Prehistory of Western Eurasia: 3-39.  Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Museum (with L. G. Freeman, J. González Echegaray & W. T. Crowe.)

1987      Excavaciones en la Cueva del Juyo.  Centro de Investigacion y Museo de Altamira, Monografiyas 14: 1-224 (with I. Barandiarán, L. G. Freeman & J. González Echegaray).

1987      Problems and prospects in understanding how early people exploited animals.  In (M. H. Nitecki & D. V. Nitecki, Eds.)  Evolution of Human Hunting: 11-45.  New York, Plenum Press.

1987      The extinct blue antelope.  Sagittarius 2(3): 20-23.

1987      Paleolithic.  McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology (Sixth Edition) Vol. 13: 47-51.  New York, McGraw-Hill.

1987      Large mammal and tortoise bones from Elands Bay Cave and nearby sites, Western Cape Province, South Africa.  Papers in the Prehistory of the Western Cape, South Africa (J. E. Parkington & M. Hall, Eds.)  British Archaeological Reports International Series 332: 132-163 (with K. Cruz-Uribe).

1986      Carnivore size and Quaternary climatic change in southern Africa.  Quaternary Research 25: 153-170.

1986      Re-analysis of faunal assemblages from the Haua Fteah and other Late Quaternary sites in Cyrenaican Libya.  Journal of Archaeological Science 13: 515-542 (with K. Scott.)

1986      The brown hyaenas of the Cape Flats.  Sagittarius 1(4): 8-13.

1986      The prehistory of stone age herders in the Cape Province of South Africa.  South African Archaeological Society Goodwin Series 5: 5-12.

1986      Pascal programs for computing taxonomic abundance in samples of fossil mammals.  Journal of Archaeological Science 13: 171-187 (with K. Cruz-Uribe).

1985      Pleistocene and Holocene human remains from Equus Cave, South Africa.  Anthropology 8: 55-98 (with F. E. Grine).

1985      Ancestors: Breaking Away (“Even in its infancy, modern humanity displayed a talent for innovation.”)  Natural History 94(1): 4-7.

1984      The prehistory of stone age herders in South Africa.  In (J. D. Clark & S. Brandt, Eds.) From Hunters to Farmers: The Causes and Consequences of Food Production in Africa: 281-289.  Berkeley, University of California Press.

1984      Later Stone Age faunal samples from Heuningsneskrans Shelter (Transvaal) and Leopard’s Hill Cave (Zambia).  South African Archaeological Bulletin 39: 109-116.

1984      The remains of larger mammals from Fairview Shelter.  Annals of the Cape Provincial Museums (Human Sciences) 1(3): 82-86.

1984      The large mammals of southern Africa: late Pliocene to Recent.  In (R. G. Klein, Ed.) Southern African Prehistory and Paleoenvironments: 107-146.  Rotterdam, A. A. Balkema.

1984      Mammalian extinctions and stone age people in Africa.  In (P. S. Martin & R. G. Klein, Eds.) Quaternary Extinctions: A Prehistoric Revolution: 553-573.  Tucson, University of Arizona Press.

1983      Stone age population numbers and average tortoise size at Byneskranskop Cave 1 and Die Kelders Cave 1, Southern Cape Province, South Africa.  South African Archaeological Bulletin 38: 26-30 (with K. Cruz-Uribe)

1983      Palaeoenvironmental implications of Quaternary large mammals in the Fynbos Biome.  South African National Scientific Programmes Reports 75: 116-138.

1983      The Stone Age prehistory of Southern Africa.  Annual Review of Anthropology 12: 25-48.

1983      Faunal remains from some Middle and Later Stone Age archaeological sites in South West Africa.  Journal of the South West African Scientific Society 36/37: 91-114 (with K. Cruz-Uribe).

1983      A stone age sanctuary.  Natural History 92(8): 46-53 (with L. G. Freeman & J. González Echegaray.)

1983      The computation of ungulate age (mortality) profiles from dental crown heights.  Paleobiology 9: 70-78 (with K. Cruz-Uribe.)

1983      Neanderthals and Cro-Magnon Man: What do we really know about them?  American Scholar 52(3): 386-392.

1983      The calculation and interpretation of ungulate age profiles from dental crown heights.  In (G. Bailey, Ed.) Hunter-Gatherer Economy in Prehistory: A European Perspective: 47-57.  Cambridge, Cambridge University Press (with K. Allwarden & C. Wolf).

1982      Age (mortality) profiles as a means of distinguishing hunted species from scavenged ones in stone age archeological sites.  Paleobiology 8: 151-158.

1982      Patterns of ungulate mortality and ungulate mortality profiles from Langebaanweg (early Pliocene) and Elandsfontein (middle Pleistocene), southwestern Cape Province, South Africa.  Annals of the South African Museum 90: 49-94.

1981      Later Stone Age subsistence at Byeneskranskop Cave, South Africa.  In (R. S. O. Harding & G. Teleki, Eds.) Omnivorous Primates: Gathering and Hunting in Human Evolution: 166-190.  New York, Columbia University Press.

1981      Ungulate mortality and sedimentary facies in the late Tertiary Varswater Formation, Langebaanweg, South-Western Cape Province, South Africa.  Annals of the South African Museum 81: 233-254.

1981      A hyaena-accumulated bone assemblage from late Holocene deposits at Deelpan, Orange Free State.  Annals of the South African Museum 86: 217-227 (with L. Scott.)

1981      Stone Age predation on small African bovids.  South African Archaeological Bulletin 36: 55-65.

1981      The use of dental crown heights for constructing age profiles of red deer and similar species in archaeological samples.  Journal of Archaeological Science 8: 1-31 (with C. Wolf, L. G.  Freeman & K. Allwarden).

1980      Late Pleistocene hunters.  In (A. Sheratt, Ed.) The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Archaeology: 87-95.  Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

1980      Larger Mammals (from Driel Shelter, Natal).  Annals of the Natal Museum 24: 62-67.

1980      Environmental and ecological implications of large mammals from Upper Pleistocene and Holocene sites in southern Africa.  Annals of the South African Museum 81: 223-283.

1979      Stone age exploitation of animals in southern Africa.  American Scientist 67: 151-160.

1979      Paleoenvironmental and cultural implications of late Holocene archeological faunas from the Orange Free State and north-central Cape Province, South Africa.  South African Archaeological Bulletin 34: 34-49.

1979      Mammals (from Diana’s Vow, Zimbabwe).  Occasional Papers of the National Museums and Monuments of Zimbabwe-Rhodesia 4(4): 147-148.

1978      Preliminary results of the analysis of the mammalian fauna from the Redcliff Stone Age cave site, Rhodesia.  Occasional Papers of the National Museums and Monuments of Rhodesia 4(2): 74-80.

1978      The fauna and overall interpretation of the “Cutting 10″ Acheulean site at Elandsfontein (Hopefield), south-western Cape Province, South Africa.  Quaternary Research 10: 69-83.

1978      Stone Age predation on large African bovids.  Journal of Archaeological Science 5: 195-217.

1978      A preliminary report on the mammalian fauna from the Boomplaas Stone Age Cave site, Oudtshoorn District, South Africa.  South African Archaeological Bulletin 33: 66-75.

1978      The vertebrate fauna from the Buffelskloof Rock Shelter.  South African Archaeological Bulletin 33: 35-38.

1977      The ecology of early man in southern Africa.  Science 197: 115-126.

1977      The mammalian fauna from the Middle and Later Stone Age (later Pleistocene) levels of Border Cave, Natal Province, South Africa.  South African Archaeological Bulletin 32: 14-27.

1976      The mammalian fauna of the Klasies River Mouth sites, southern Cape Province, South Africa.  South African Archaeological Bulletin 31: 75-98.

1976      The interpretation of mammalian faunas from stone age archaeological sites, with special reference to sites in the southern Cape Province, South Africa.  Paper presented at Burg Wartenstein Symposium No. 69 [published 1980 in (A. K. Behrensmeyer & A. Hill, Eds.) Fossils in the Making: 223-246. Chicago, University of Chicago Press.)

1976      Cultural adaptations to Pleistocene “steppe tundras” in the Old World.  Abstracts of the Fourth Biennial Meeting of the American Quaternary Association: 90-91.

1976      The fossil history of Raphicerus H. Smith, 1827 (Bovidae, Mammalia) in the Cape Biotic Zone.  Annals of the South African Museum 71: 169-191.

1976      A preliminary report on the Duinefontein 2 “Middle Stone Age” open-air site (Melkbosstrand, South-Western Cape Province, South Africa).  South African Archaeological Bulletin 31: 12-20.

1975      Paleoanthropological implications of the non-archeological bone assemblage from Swartklip 1, south-western Cape Province, South Africa.  Quaternary Research 5: 275-288.

1975      Ecology of stone age man at the southern tip of Africa. Archaeology 28: 238-247.  [Reprinted 1978 in (P. Whitten & D. E. Hunter, Eds.) Readings in Physical Anthropology and Archaeology: 137-146.  New York, Harper & Row].

1975      Middle Stone Age man-animal relationships in southern Africa: evidence from Klasies River Mouth and Die Kelders.  Science 190: 265-267.

1975      The relevance of Old World archeology for the first entry of man into the New World.  Quaternary Research 5: 391-394.

1974      Ice-age Hunters of the Ukraine.  Scientific American 230(6): 96-105.  [Reprinted in (B. M. Fagan, Ed.) Avenues to Antiquity: 66-75.  San Francisco, W. H. Freeman & Co.]

1974      The fauna of Scott’s Cave, Gamtoos Valley, southeastern Cape.  South African Journal of Science 70: 186-187 (with K. Scott).

1974      Environment and subsistence of prehistoric man in the southern Cape Province, South Africa.  World Archaeology 5: 249-284.

1974      On the taxonomic status, distribution, and ecology of the blue antelope, Hippotragus leucophaeus (Pallas, 1776).  Annals of the South African Museum 65: 99-143.

1974      A provisional statement on terminal Pleistocene mammalian extinctions in the Cape Biotic Zone (southern Cape Province, South Africa).  South African Archaeological Society Goodwin Series 2: 39-45.

1973      Geological antiquity of Rhodesian Man.  Nature 244: 311-312.

1972      A preliminary report on the June through September 1970 excavations at Nelson Bay Cave (Cape Province, South Africa).  Palaeoecology of Africa 6: 177-208.

1972      The late Quaternary mammalian fauna of Nelson Bay Cave (Cape Province, South Africa): its implications for megafaunal extinctions and for cultural and environmental change.  Quaternary Research 2: 135-142.

1971      The Pleistocene prehistory of Siberia.  Quaternary Research 1: 133-161.

1971      U.S.S.R.  In (K. P. Oakley, B. G. Campbell & T. Molleson, Eds.) Catalogue of Fossil Hominids Part II: Europe: 313-335.  British Museum (Natural History), London (with I. K. Ivanova and G. F. Debets).

1970      The Mousterian of European Russia.  Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 25: 77-112.

1970      Problems in the study of the Middle Stone Age of South Africa.  South African Archaeological Bulletin 25: 127-134.

1969      El hombre del Pleistoceno en el litoral oriental del Mar Negro.  Ampurias 29: 1-23.

1969      Mousterian cultures in European Russia.  Science 165: 257-265.

1967      Radiocarbon dates on occupation sites of Pleistocene age in the U.S.S.R.  Arctic Anthropology 4: 224-225.

1966      Chellean and Acheulean on the territory of the Soviet Union.  American Anthropologist 68(2,2): 1-45.

1965      The Middle Paleolithic of the Crimea.  Arctic Anthropology 3: 34-68.

Reviews, Letters, and Abstracts:

In press  “Elandsfontein” and “Nelson Bay Cave” for the Catalogue of Southern African Fossil Hominids (P. V. Tobias, ed.).  Brussels: Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences.  In press.

2009      Animals and People: Archaeozoological Papers in Honour of Ina Plug. (Badenhorst, Shaw, Mitchell, Peter, Driver, Jonathan C., editors).   BAR International Series 1849.  South African Archaeological Bulletin 64: in press.

2009      Spreeuwal: an Upper Pleistocene Wetland on the Western Cape Coast, South Africa.  Southern African Society for Quaternary Research Abstracts 2009: 11 (With G. Avery and K. Cruz-Uribe).

2009      Eland, Buffalo, and Wild Pigs: Are They Equally Abundant in Middle and Later Stone Age Sites?  Paleoanthropology 2009: A20 (with Tim Weaver and Teresa Steele).

2008      Gibraltar data are too sparse to inform on Neanderthal exploitation of coastal resource Gibraltar data are too sparse to inform on Neanderthal exploitation of coastal resources. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105 (51): E115 (with T. E. Steele)

2007      The Chosen Species: The Long March of Human Evolution (Juan Luis Arsuaga and Ignacio Martínez).  Quarterly Review of Biology 82: 307-308.

2007      “Shell artefact production at 32,000-28,000 BP in island Southeast Asia” by Katherine Szabó, Adam Brumm, and Peter Bellwood.  Current Anthropology 48: 716-717.

2006      “The Lower/Middle Paleolithic periodization in western Europe” by Gilliane F. Monnier.  Current Anthropology 47(5): 730-731

2006      “Ahead of the Game: Middle and Upper Palaeolithic Hunting Behaviors in the Southern Caucasus” by D. S. Adler et al.  Current Anthropology 47 (1): 108-109.

2004      Principles of Human Evolution (Second Edition) (Roger Lewin and Robert A. Foley).  Quarterly Review of Biology 79: 339.

2004      Neanderthals and Modern Humans: An Ecological and Evolutionary Perspective  (C. Finlyason).  Science 305: 45.

2003      “The origin of modern human behavior: critique of the models and their test implications” by Christopher S. Henshilwood and Curtis W. Marean.  Current Anthropology 44(5): 640-641.

2003      “An early case of color symbolism:  ochre use by modern humans in Qafzeh Cave” by Erella Hovers et al.  Current Anthropology 44: 512-513.

2002      Settlement Dynamics of the Middle Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age (N. J. Conard, ed.).  Journal of Human Evolution 42: 785-786.

2002      Kalambo Falls Prehistoric Site Volume III ( J. D.. Clark).  Quarterly Review of Biology, 77: 195.

2002      Middle Pleistocene paleoenvironments of hominid sites in the Western Cape. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Supp. 34: 58-58.  (with K. Cruz-Uribe).

2001      Humanity from African Naissance to Coming Millennia (P. V. Tobias, M. A. Raath, J. Moggi-Cecchi & G. A. Doyle, eds).  South African Archaeological Bulletin 65:110-111.

2001      The Encyclopedia of Human Evolution and Prehistory (E. Delson, I. Tattersall, J. A. Van Couvering, and A. S. Brooks, eds).  Quarterly Review of Biology 76: 532-533.

1999      Zooarchaeology (E. J. Reitz and E. S. Wing).  Journal of Anthropological Research: 55: 612-614.

1999      Human Beginnings in South Africa: Uncovering the Secrets of the Stone Age (H. J. Deacon and Janette Deacon).  South African Archaeological Bulletin: 54:149-150.

1999      Conceptual Issues in Modern Human Origins Research (G. A. Clark and C. M. Willermet, Eds.).  American Journal of Human Biology 11: 81.

1998      “Mousterian large-mammal remains from Kobeh Cave: behavioral implications for Neanderthals and early modern humans” (C. W. Marean and S. Y. Kim).  Current Anthropology 39: S96-S97.

1997      Race and Human Evolution: The Fatal Attraction (M. H. Wolpoff and R. Caspari).  Quarterly Review of Biology 72: 356.

1996      The Neanderthal Legacy: An Archaeological Perspective from Western Europe (P. A. Mellars).  Science 272, 822-823.

1995      Naming our Ancestors: An Anthology of Hominid Taxonomy (W. E. Meikle and S. T. Taylor, Eds.).  Quarterly Review of Biology 70:114.

1995      Honor Among Thieves: A Zooarchaeological Study of Neanderthal Ecology (M. C. Stiner).  Science 267: 1843-1844.

1994      Chimpanzee Material Culture: Implications for Human Evolution (W. C. McGrew).  Quarterly Review of Biology 69: 428-429..

1994      From Bones to Behavior: Ethnoarchaeologial and Experimental Contributions to the Interpretation of Faunal Remains (J. Hudson, Ed.)  American Antiquity 59: 565-566.

1994      The Origin of Modern Humans and the Impact of Chronometric Dating (M. J. Aitken, C. B. Stringer, and P. A. Mellars, Eds.).  International Journal of Primatology: 15: 327-329.

1993      The Origin and Evolution of Humans and Humanness (D. Tab Rasmussen, Ed.).  American Journal of Human Biology 5(5): 590-591.

1993      Before Lascaux: The Complex Record of the Early Upper Paleolithic (H. Knecht, A. Pike-Tay, and R. White, Eds.).  Science 262: 1751-1752.

1993      Making Silent Stones Speak: Human Evolution and the Dawn of Technology  (Kathy D. Schick and Nicholas Toth). Anthroquest 47, 16.

1993      The Human Evolution Source Book (R. Ciochon and J. Fleagle, Eds.).  Quarterly Review of Biology: 68: 467.

1993      The Middle Paleolithic: Adaptation, Behavior and Variability (H. L. Dibble and P. Mellars, Eds.). Journal of Field Archaeology 20, 237-240.

1993      Prehistory: The World of Early Man (J. Guilaine, Ed.).  Quarterly Review of Biology 68: 310.

1992      Contribution to the Archaeozoology of Central Africa (W. van Neer).  Palaeoecology of Africa 23: 215-220.

1992      A quarter century of paleoanthropology: views from the USA (L. G. Straus, ed.).  South African Archaeological Bulletin 47, 136-137.

1992      Narratives of Human Evolution (M. Landau).  Quarterly Review of Biology 67: 86-87.

1987      Stone Age Prehistory: Studies in Memory of Charles McBurney (G. N. Bailey & P. Callow, Eds.).  Antiquity 61: 142.

1987      Quantitative Zooarchaeology.  Topics in the Analysis of Archaeological Faunas (D. K. Grayson).  Quarterly Review of Archaeology 8(2): 8-9.

1987      Teeth (S. Hillson).  American Scientist 75: 645.

1986      The Omo Micromammals: Systematics and Paleoecology of Early Man Sites from Ethiopia (H. B. Wesselman).  American Anthropologist 88: 231-232.

1986      Faunal Remains from Klasies River Mouth (L. R. Binford).  American Anthropologist: 88: 494-495.

1986      “Systematic butchery by Plio/Pleistocene hominids at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania” (H. T. Bunn & E. M. Kroll).  Current Anthropology 27(5): 446-447.

1986      The Upper Paleolithic of the Central Russian Plain (O. Soffer).  Journal of Human Evolution 15: 827-828.

1985      Hominid Evolution and Community Ecology (R. Foley, Ed.). Nature 315: 609.

1985      The Origins of Modern Humans: A World Survey of the Fossil Evidence (F. H. Smith & F. Spencer, Eds.). Human Biology 57: 489-491.

1983      Ecology of Desert Organisms (G. Louw & M. Seely).  Choice 20: 1014.

1983      Paleoecology of Beringia (D. M. Hopkins, J. V. Matthews, Jr., C. E. Schweger & S. B. Young, Eds.)  Science 220: 1226-1227.

1983      The Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Periods of Britain (D. Roe).  Quaternary Research 15: 254-255.

1982      Rock Shelters of the Perigord (H. Laville, J.-Ph. Rigaud & J. Sackett).  Journal of Archaeological Science 85: 307-308.

1982      The Hunters or the Hunted? (C. K. Brain). Paleobiology 8: 171-175.

1982      Environmental Archaeology (M. Shackley).  American Scientist: 544-545.

1982      The Environment in British Prehistory (I. Simmons & M. Tooley, Eds.)  American Antiquity 47: 904.

1981      Prehistory of the Eastern Sahara (F. Wendorf & R. Schild).  American Anthropologist 83: 666-668.

1980      European Prehistory (S. Milisauskas).  American Antiquity 45: 209-210.

1980      Reindeer and Caribou Hunters: An Archaeological Study (A. E. Spiess).  Science 207: 632.

1980      Prehistoric Hunters of the High Plains (G. Frison).  Journal of Archaeological Science 7: 103-104.

1980      Paleonutrition (E. Wing and A. Brown).  Journal of Archaeological Science 7: 393-394.

1979      Olorgesailie: Archaeological Studies of a Middle Pleistocene Lake Basin in Kenya (G. Ll. Isaac).  American Anthropologist 81: 148-150.

1979      Nunamiut Ethnoarchaeology (L. R. Binford).  Journal of Archaeological Science 6: 207.

1979      La Préhistoire Française (H. de Lumley & J. Guilaine, Eds.). Quaternary Research 12: 156-157.

1979      The Emergence of Man (J. E. Pfeiffer).  The Quarterly Review of Biology 54: 213.

1978      Early Man in the Soviet Union: The Implications of some Recent Discoveries (C.B.M. McBurney).  Antiquity 52: 61-62.

1977      Where Hunters Gathered (H. J. Deacon).  South African Archaeological Bulletin 32: 93-96.

1976      Paleoanthropology, Morphology and Paleoecology (R. H. Tuttle, Ed.).  Quarterly Review of Biology 51: 558.

1975      Northeast Asia in Prehistory (C. S. Chard).  Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 35: 286-290.

1973      Environment and Archaeology (2nd Edition) (K. W. Butzer).  The Professional Geographer 25: 291-292.

1972      Atlas of Animal Bones (E. Schmid).  Quaternary Research 2: 258.

1972      The Study of Animal Bones from Archaeological Sites (R. E. Chaplin).  South African Archaeological Bulletin 27: 94.

1971      Prehistoric Russia: An Outline (T. Sulimirski).  American Anthropologist 73: 1422-1423.

1970      Human Origins: An Introduction to Physical Anthropology (T. W. McKern & S. McKern).  American Anthropologist 72: 710-711.

1969      “Evolution of Palaeolithic in Central and Eastern Europe” (K. Valoch).  Current Anthropology 9: 376.

1969      La Station Paléolithique d’Erd–Hongrie (V. Gabori-Czank). American Anthropologist 71: 1219-1223.

1969      Kak vozniklo chelovechestvo (How Mankind Originated) (Yu. V. Semenov).  American Anthropologist 71: 343-344.

1969      “Cultural traditions and environment of early man” (D. Collins).  Current Anthropology 10: 307.

1969      “Neanderthal Man and Homo sapiens in Central and Eastern Europe” (J. Jelinek).  Current Anthropology 10: 493-495.

1967      Izobrazheniya cheloveka v paleoliticheskom isskustve Evrazii (Portrayals of man in the Paleolithic Art of Eurasia) (Z. A. Abramova).  American Anthropologist 69: 534-535.

1966      Archaeology and Geomorphology of Northern Asia: Selected Works (H. N. Michael, Ed.) and The Soviet Far East in Antiquity an Archaeological and Historical Study of the Maritime Region of the U.S.S.R. (A. P. Okladnikov).  American Anthropologist 68: 1302-1303.

Editorial and Review Boards (* = past):

Journal of Archaeological Science, Editor

African Natural History

*Chicago Academy of Sciences

Evolutionary Anthropology

*Geoarchaeology

*International Council for Archaeozoology (ICAZ)

Journal of Field Archaeology

*Journal of Human Evolution

L. S. B. Leakey Foundation, Chair, Grants Committee

*National Science Foundation Archeology Panel

*National Science Foundation, HOMINID Panel

*PALEO: Révue d’Archéologie Préhistorique

*Paleobiology

*Paleoecology of Africa

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Quaternary Research

*Science Year (World Book)

South African Archaeological Bulletin

*United States National INQUA Committee

*Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Advisory Board

Current Professional Memberships:

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

American Association of Physical Anthropologists

California Academy of Sciences

National Academy of Sciences

Royal Society of South Africa

South African Archaeological Society (President July 2002 – July 2004)

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Stefan de Kock

  

Heritage Practitioner – HIA Management – Urban Panning

Stefan

 

Stefan is a generalist heritage practitioner, is educated in other fields and specialized in certain areas of Heritage Impact Assessment. For further details see his CV posted below.

  

 

HERITAGE RELATED EXPERIENCE: PERCEPTION Heritage Planning

Principal Stéfan de Kock 

Date of Birth 1973 

Nationality South African 

Education B-Tech: Town and Regional Planning (C-Tech, SA) 

Environmental Impact Assessment Management (Dublin University, IRL) 

Architectural & Urban Conservation (University of Cape Town, SA) 

Urban Design Decision Making (University of Cape Town, SA) 

Professional Corporate Member of the Irish Planning Institute 

Membership Member of the Association of Heritage Assessment Practitioners 

Being a Member of the Association of Heritage Assessment Practitioners (AHAP), Stéfan de Kock 

is currently involved in the following projects in capacity as Heritage Practitioner: 

  • · Preliminary Heritage Survey (Red Flag Mapping) for proposed George Western Bypass;
  • · Submission of NID / Heritage Impact Assessment for Helderberg International School:

Gustrouw 918/82, Stellenbosch; 

  • · Preliminary Heritage Survey for Riversdale CBD with draft Heritage Inventory as part of multidisciplinary

“Riversdale Re-vitalisation Programme”; 

  • · Preliminary Heritage Survey of George CBD as part of investigation for proposed George

Mobility Strategy, initiated by the Western Cape Provincial Department of Transport; 

  • · Assist George Municipality in compilation up of a tender for the appointment of professionals

to undertake Heritage Inventory for the George Municipal Area; 

  • · Preliminary Heritage Survey for proposed re-development of Erf 1268, Wilderness (Fairy

Knowe Hotel; 

  • · Assist George Municipality in drawing up of a tender for the appointment of professionals to

undertake Heritage Inventory for George; 

  • · The following submissions in terms of Section 38 of the National Heritage Resources Act,

1999 (Act 25 of 1999) (not all mentioned here): 

– Mooikloof Residential Estate, Hansmoeskraal 202/21, 23, 24, 48 & 48, George (NID); 

– Monteniqua Sports Academy and Forest Estate, Houtbosch 212/33, 47, 50 and Farm 

216/5, 8, 9, Remainder, George (NID); 

– Camdeboo Eco Reserve, Bo Plaat 287 and De Vreede 286, Graaff Reinet (NID); 

– Residential development, Kraaibosch 195/3, George (NID, HIA); 

– Residential development, Erven 1992 and 2646, Great Brak River (NID, HIA); 

– Residential development, Erf 2098, Plettenberg Bay (NID, HIA); 

– Residential development, Erven 923 and 6212, Oudtshoorn (NID, HIA); 

– Stonehouse Country Estate, Hillview 437/9, Knysna (NID); 

– Boutique hotel, Houtbosch 212/51, George (NID); 

– Kwanokuthula Housing Extension, Plettenberg Bay (NID); 

– Heidevallei Land Reform Project, Knysna (NID, HIA) 

– Extension of Eastford Bulk Services Infrastructure (NID); 

– Extension of Kraaibosch Bulk Sewer line – Phase Two (NID); 

– Tarka Land Claim, Mossel Bay (Land Claim Commission) (NID, HIA); 

– Agricultural development, Abrahamskraal, Prince Albert (NID); 

– Residential development, Erf 419 (Reebok), Mossel Bay (NID); 

– Residential development, Erf 1115 (Tergniet), Mossel Bay (NID); 

– Duinekraal Residential Estate, Duinekroon 591/ Remainder, (Still Bay) Riversdale (NID); 

– Residential development, Kraaibosch 195/ 256, 273, George (NID, HIA); 

– Hotel development, Gansevallei 444/38, Plettenberg Bay (NID); 

– Borcherds bus depot, George Mobility Strategy (NID); 

– Social Housing project, Astley 439/2, 22, Plettenberg Bay (NID); 

  • · Application for permit to demolish structure older than 60 years in terms of National Heritage

Resources Act, 1999 (Act 25 of 1999): Erf 22 (Oaklands), Johannesburg. 

From September 2001until February 2004, he joins An Bord Pleanala (Irish National Planning 

Appeals Board), a Directorate of the Irish National Department of Environment, Heritage and Local 

Government. Here he gains extensive knowledge on particularly high- and medium density urban 

residential projects, urban conservation, rural- and agricultural related projects. Heritage-related 

projects researched and adjudicated includes the following (copies of these reports available on 

request)

  • · Construction of 5 x four bedroom detached dormer dwellings, 4 x three bedroom semidetached

dwellings, 5 apartment blocks each containing 1 x two bedroom apartment and 1 x 

one bedroom apartment as well as associated site works at Rosses Upper, Rosses Point, 

Sligo (PL027.125453); 

  • · Demolition of existing double storey building and construction of new office building for

Wexford County Council at Hill Street, Wexford (PL085.126065, PL85.201523); 

  • · Construction of eleven dwellings, Bawn Street, Strokestown, County Roscommon

(PL027.127097); 

  • · Marina basin, link to existing canal, toilet block, refuse store, general stores, petrol- and diesel

pumps, 6 dwellings and new service road from public road at Old Schoolhouse to proposed 

development, including services, small sewerage treatment plant and car parking area at 

Mount Plunket, Lecarrow, County Roscommon (PL027.126488); 

  • · Demolition of existing three storey building and construction of new three storey building with

basement storage, licensed restaurant/take-away on ground floor level and office space on 

first- and second floor levels at 31a John Street, Waterford (PL31.127607); 

  • · Refurbishment and change of use of a Martello Tower (a protected structure) to an archive at

Brighton Vale, Seapoint, County Dublin (PL06D.128362); 

  • · Demolition of existing 2 storey office building; removal of adjacent on grade car park; Mixed

development comprising Office space at ground- and first floor levels; 5 two-bedroom 

apartments; 1 two-bedroom maisonette; 1 one-bedroom apartment at first- and second floor 

levels together with associated services and development works at 7-12 Baggot Court, Dublin 

2, County Dublin (PL29D.129210); 

  • · Construction of three 52m high wind turbines and ancillary works at Gibraltar, Stratford-on-

Slaney, County Wicklow (PL27.130834); 

  • · Construction of a two-turbine wind farm consisting of turbine towers not exceeding 71m in

height and turbine rotors not exceeding 71.5m in diameter with ancillary buildings and 

incidental site works at Kilmullin, Newtownmountkennedy, County Wicklow (PL27.200319); 

  • · Alterations to shop front and entrance to upper floors at Robert Chambers Hair Salon, 69

Grafton Street, Dublin 2, County Dublin (PL29S.201076); 

  • · Construction of overhead electricity line of double circuit 110kV from Killowen and

Huntingtown to Banoge, County Wexford (PL26.202379); 

  • · Demolition of dwelling and construction of 21 apartments and 2 townhouses with revised

vehicular access onto Stillorgan Park Road at Meadow Court, Stillorgan Park, Blackrock, 

County Dublin (PL06D.202962). 

In December 2002, Stéfan is elected as a Corporate Member of the Irish Planning Institute. He is 

also sanctioned by An Bord Pleanala to engage in further studies and completes a Diploma in 

Environmental Impact Assessment Management at the Dublin University in 2002. During 2003 he 

is also sanctioned to attend the Planning Summer School, held at the University of Wales, under 

the auspices of the Royal Town Planning Institute. In December 2003, returns to South Africa and 

in February 2004 and founds PERCEPTION Environmental Planning. The focus of this 

consultancy is primarily on Urban Planning projects and Heritage Impact Assessment throughout 

the Western- and Eastern Cape. In June 2007 completes a course in Architectural & Urban 

conservation at the University of Cape Town. 

Prior to 2001, he acquired experience within the South African public sector during respective 

employment terms with Mossel Bay Municipality, George Municipality and Eden District 

Municipality (c. 5.5yrs). He also spent time in the private sector (c. 0.5yrs) when joining Aikman 

Architects and Planners as an Urban Planner where he gained experience in various private/ 

public sector ventures relating to urban development, e.g. proposed re-development programme 

for William Porter Reformatory, Tokai. 

PERCEPTION Heritage Planning 

PO Box 9995, GEORGE, 6530 

Fax: 086 510 8357 

Mobile: 082 568 4719 

E-mail: perceptionenvplg@gmail.com 

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John Pether

Palaeontologist & Geologist

 

John - geo-palaeontologist in the field 1984

John’s CV below says it all …

 CURRICULUM VITAE

Mr John Pether, M.Sc., Pr. Sci. Nat. (Earth Science)

Geological and Palaeontological Consultant

P. O. Box 48318, Kommetjie, 7976.

Tel./Fax: (021) 7833023. Cellphone: 083 744 6295. Email: jpether@iafrica.com. Faxmail: 0866 890 732

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January 2010

CURRENT STATUS

Independent Consultant/Researcher.

EXPERTISE

 Shallow marine sedimentology.

 Coastal plain and shelf stratigraphy (interpretation of open-pit exposures and cores).

 Marine macrofossil taxonomy (molluscs, barnacles, brachiopods).

 Marine macrofossil taphonomy.

 Sedimentological and palaeontological field techniques in open-cast mines (including finding and excavation of vertebrate fossils (bones).

 Analysis of the shelly macrofauna of modern samples e.g. for environmental surveys.

Is a recognized authority in the field of coastal-plain and continental-shelf palaeoenvironments and is consulted by exploration and mining companies, by the Council for Geoscience, the Geological Survey of Namibia and by colleagues/students in academia pursuing coastal-plain/shelf projects.

Has intimate knowledge of the West Coast geohistorical model w.r.t. exploration for gem diamond resources. Currently a member of the Afri-Can Marine Minerals Corp. exploration team.

Has served as a representative for the interests of palaeontology in early discussions on developing strategies to mitigate loss of data and fossils in coastal mines and developments, in terms of Heritage Resource Management.

At present, an important involvement is in palaeontological impact assessments (PIAs) and mitigation projects in terms of the National Heritage Resources Act 25 (1999).

MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL BODIES

 South African Council of Natural Scientific Professions. Earth Science. Reg. No. 400094/95.

 Geological Society of South Africa.

 Palaeontological Society of Southern Africa.

 Southern African Society for Quaternary Research.

 Heritage Western Cape. Member, Permit Committee for Archaeology, Palaeontology and Meteorites.

 Accredited member, Association of Professional Heritage Practitioners, Western Cape.

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HERITAGE IMPACT ASSESSMENT INVOLVEMENTS

1995. Draft procedures for the mitigation of mining impacts on palaeontological resources at the proposed Anglo-Alpha Saldanha Cement Project. For Mark Wood Consultants, Environmental Management. (Jun)

1995. Specialist Palaeontological Study. Assessment of the potential palaeontological impacts of the shale and limestone mining, Anglo-Alpha Saldanha Cement Project. For Mark Wood Consultants, Environmental Management. (Jun).

1995. The Impact of Mining on Fossiliferous Sediments. Submitted to the Mining Environment Forum, Western Cape Regional office of the Department of Mineral and Energy Affairs. (27 Oct).

2003. Palaeontological Mitigation Report, Development on Velddrif Fossil Shell Bar. Noordhoek Phase 2, Velddrif Housing, Berg River Municipality. For Ninham Shand (Pty) Ltd. (Oct).

2004. Initial Palaeontological Mitigation Report, Last Interglacial Deposits Verlorevlei South Bank. Re-alignment of Main Road Mr 535, Elandsbaai, Provincial Administration Western Cape. For Megan Anderson, Landscape Architect. February 2005. (May).

2004. Palaeontological Mitigation Report, Coastal Marine Deposits Dwarskersbos. Dwarskersbos Erf 276 Housing Development. For BKS (Pty) Ltd. (Sept).

2005. Final Palaeontological Mitigation Report, Last Interglacial Deposits Verlorevlei South Bank. Re-alignment of Main Road Mr 535, Elandsbaai, Provincial Administration Western Cape. For Megan Anderson, Landscape Architect. (Feb).

2005. Brief assessment for palaeontological mitigation, sites on Witteklip, Vredenburg. For Heritage Resources Authority, Western Cape. (2 Sept).

2006. Western Macassar Dunes Eco-trails Project. Heritage specialist input for Draft Scoping Report: Palaeontological assessment of the Western Macassar Dunes. For UCT Environmental Evaluation Unit. (Feb)

2006. Western Macassar Dunes Eco-trails Project. Palaeontological assessment of the Western Macassar Dunes: General Information Document. For UCT Environmental Evaluation Unit. (Feb).

2006. Palaeontological and scientific mitigation of shoreline deposits during works at Dwarskersbos, Erf 149, Dwarskersbos North and Farm 109, Dwarskersbos South. For Western Cape Environmental Consultants (Pty) Ltd, t/a ENVIRO DINAMIK. Mar.

2006. Palaeontological and scientific mitigation of shoreline deposits during works at Erf 470, Velddrif. For Western Cape Environmental Consultants (Pty) Ltd, t/a ENVIRO DINAMIK. Mar.

2006. Palaeontological investigation and mitigatory actions for proposed hazardous waste disposal site, Saldanha Bay municipal area. For Resource Management Services. May.

2006. Palaeontological Mitigatory Actions – Development of Erf 578, Velddrif (Laaiplek). For Western Cape Environmental Consultants (Pty) Ltd, t/a ENVIRO DINAMIK. Aug.

2006. Palaeontological investigation and mitigatory actions for proposed residue dam, Namakwa Sands smelter, Saldanha Bay municipal area. For Resource Management Services. Aug.

2006. Palaeontological Mitigatory Actions – Development of Erf 377, Jacobs Bay. For Matflor (Pty) Ltd. Sept.

2006. Palaeontological Mitigatory Actions – Developments of Portion 7 of Jacobs Baay 108 and Portion 3 of Trekossen Kraal 104. Prepared for Mr Tim Hart, Heritage Assessor, UCT Archaeology Contracts Office (ACO). Sept.

2006. Palaeontological Mitigatory Actions – Development of Erf 460, St. Helena Bay. For CK Rumboll & Partners. Sept.

2006. Palaeontological Mitigation Report, Coastal Marine Deposits, Bloubergstrand. For Cape Archaeology, Dr Mary Patrick. Sept.

2006. Palaeontological Mitigatory Actions – Development of Philipskraal, Centrepoint Development, Saldanha Small Holdings. For BKS (Pty) Ltd Engineering and Management. Dec.

2007. Brief palaeontological impact assessment and proposed mitigatory actions. Construction of a pebble-bed modular reactor, Koeberg. For Archaeology Contracts Office, Dept Archaeology, UCT. (Nov). 3

2007. Palaeontological Impact Assessment. Desktop scoping report. Developments of Duinekroon 591/ remainder (Still Bay), district Riversdale. For Perception Environmental Planning. (Oct).

2008. EIA Phase 2 expansion of the Saldanha iron ore handling facility. Heritage: Palaeontological Assessment. Stratigraphic review and recommendations for palaeontological mitigation. For PD Naidoo & Associates (Pty) Ltd, consultants to Transnet. (Feb).

2008. Palaeontological Mitigation and Geoheritage: De Beers Namaqualand Mines. Initial Draft Report. 28pp, with 4 maps and 49 images. Unpub. (May).

2008. Palaeontological potential at Baboon Point. A brief palaeontological assessment of erven 65, 66 and Portion 4 of Verlorenvlei Farm no. 8, Baboon Point/Cape Deseada, Elandsbaai. For Agency for Cultural Resource Management. (June).

2008. Palaeontological Impact Assessment. Development Of Erven 231 and 478, Velddrif (Laaiplek). For Robin Ellis, Heritage Impact Assessor. (July).

2009. Draft Palaeontological Impact Assessment. New Borrow Pits for Roadworks, Port Nolloth – Richtersveld Municipality. For Van Zyl Environmental Consultants, Upington. (Jan).

2009. Palaeontological Impact Assessment. Proposed Phosphate Prospecting, Langebaanweg. Langeberg 185 Portions 7 & 12 and Farm 1043, Vredenburg Magisterial District, Saldanha Bay Municipality. For Site Plan Consulting (Pty) Ltd. (Feb).

2009. Palaeontological Impact Assessment (Desktop Scoping Study). Proposed Construction of an Hotel on Ganse Vallei 444/38, Plettenberg Bay, District Knysna, Western Cape. For Perception Environmental Planning. (May).

2009. Palaeontological Impact Assessment (Desktop Scoping Study). Proposed Housing Development on Besters Kraal 38, Portion 37, Vredenburg, Western Cape. For Agency for Cultural Resource Management. (June).

2009. Palaeontological Impact Assessment (Desktop Scoping Study) and Chance Find Management Plan. Establishment of a Metal Recovery Plant At Arcelor Mittal Saldanha Works, Saldanha Bay, Western Cape. For Environmental Resources Management SA (ERM). (June).

2009. Palaeontological Monitoring Report. Establishment Of A Metal Recovery Plant At Arcelor Mittal Saldanha Works, Saldanha Bay, Western Cape. For Environmental Resources Management SA (ERM). (Aug).

2009. Palaeontological Impact Assessment (Desktop Scoping Study). Proposed Construction of an Hotel on Erf 12529, Beacon Island Estate, Plettenberg Bay, District Knysna, Western Cape. For Perception Environmental Planning. (June).

2009. Palaeontological Impact Assessment (Desktop Scoping Study). Proposed New Waste Water Treatment Works, Paternoster. Remainder Besters Kraal 38, Portion 3 and Erf 1519, Vredenburg District, Saldanha Bay Municipality, Western Cape. For Agency for Cultural Resource Management. (July).

2009. Palaeontological Mitigation Procedures. Initial Phase 2a Phosphate Prospecting. Langeberg 185 Ptns 7 & 12 and Farm 1043, Langebaanweg, Vredenburg Magisterial District, Saldanha Bay Municipality. For Site Plan Consulting (Pty) Ltd. (Sept).

2009. Palaeontological Impact Assessment. (Desktop Scoping Study). Protection Of Saldanha-Sishen Iron Ore Railway Line From Beach Erosion Processes Near Elandsbaai. (Aka S.E.F 502330: Elandsbaai Sand Dune Rehabilitation). For Strategic Environmental Focus (Pty) Ltd (Oct).

2009. Palaeontological Impact Assessment (Desktop Study). Proposed Vredelus 132/22 Kv Substation and Verlore-Vredelus 132 Kv Overhead Powerline. With Fossil Find Procedures. Project Reference 0104439, Task 1, Eskom Verlore/Vredelus. For Environmental Resources Management SA (ERM). (Dec).

2009. Palaeontological Mitigation Report. Initial Phase 2a Phosphate Prospecting. Langeberg 185 Ptns 7 & 12 and Farm 1043, Langebaanweg, Vredenburg Magisterial District, Saldanha Bay Municipality. For Site Plan Consulting (Pty) Ltd. (Dec).

2010. Brief Desktop Palaeontological Impact Assessment. Development of Erf 6268, Atlantis Extension 12. For Cape Archaeology (Jan). 4

RECENT GENERAL CONSULTATION

2005. Note on calcareous tubes etc. from Mossel Bay, sample 46842. For Dr. Curtis W. Marean, Institute of Human Origins, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University. (5 May).

2005. Marine deposits and sea-level history in the Mossel Bay area. With Dave Roberts, CGS. For SACP4 Project led by Dr. Curtis W. Marean, Institute of Human Origins, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University. Ongoing.

2005. Geology of the Velddrif area and desktop assessment of the potential for ****** deposits. For CNdV Africa. (22 Jun).

2005. Notes on a visit to Namakwa Sands, 14 March 2005. For Namakwa Sands (Pty) Ltd. (19 Apr).

2005. Namakwa Sands West Mine: stratigraphy, depositional environments and palaeontology. 1st Report. For Namakwa Sands. (Dec.).

2005. The West Coast – a brief history. For Mr Joss Lean, Exec. Producer, Project Coordination, Our Coast for Life. (Jul).

2005. Initial examination of the macrofaunal fossil content of paraconglomerates from SASA 2C. For De Beers Marine (SA) Pty Ltd. (Aug).

2006. Stratigraphic contexts of palaeoseismicity, Namaqualand coast. Field consultation. For the Council for Geoscience. (Feb).

2006. Namakwa Sands West Mine: stratigraphy, depositional environments and palaeontology. 2nd Phase. For Namakwa Sands. (Oct. – ongoing).

2006. Stratigraphy, depositional environments and palaeontology of Marine EPL 2499, off Namibia. For Afri-Can Marine Minerals Corp. (Nov. – ongoing).

2007. Epl 2499, Namibia. Report On The Vibracores. Features 6, 8, 17 & 18. Voyage Mv Mare Oceano, October-November 2006. Parts I & II. For Afri-Can Marine Minerals Corp. (Aug).

2008. Due Diligence Report. Concession Area EPL 3484, Namibia. For Afri-Can Marine Minerals Corp. Co-authors M. Mittelmeyer, J Pether, L Gardner. (Nov).

PUBLICATIONS

Pether, J. 1983. The lithostratigraphy of Hondeklipbaai – a reconnaissance. Unpub. B.Sc. Honours Project, University of Cape Town , 77 pp.

Kensley, B. & Pether, J. 1986. Late Tertiary and Early Quaternary Mollusca of the Hondeklip area, Cape Province, South Africa. Annals of the South African Museum 97 (6): 141-225.

Pether, J. 1986. Late Tertiary and Early Quaternary marine deposits of the Namaqualand coast, Cape Province: new perspectives. South African Journal of Science 82 (9): 464-470.

Grindley, J.R., Rogers, J., Woodborne, M.W. and Pether, J. 1988. Holocene evolution of Rietvlei, near Cape Town, deduced from the palaeoecology of some mid-Holocene estuarine Mollusca. Palaeoecology of Africa 19: 347-353.

Pether, J. 1990. A new Austromegabalanus (Cirripedia, Balanidae) from the Pliocene of Namaqualand, Cape Province, South Africa. Annals of the South African Museum 99 (1): 1-13.

Rogers, J., Pether, J., Molyneux, R., Hill, R.S., Kilham, J.L.C., Cooper, G. & Corbett, I.B. 1990. Cenozoic geology and mineral deposits along the west coast of South Africa and the Sperrgebiet. Guidebook Geocongress ’90. Geological Society of South Africa, PR 1: 1-111.

Pether, J. 1993. Relict shells of Subantarctic Mollusca from the Orange Shelf, Benguela Region, off southwestern Africa. The Veliger 36 (3): 276-284.

Pether, J. 1994. Molluscan evidence for enhanced deglacial advection of Agulhas water in the Benguela Current, off southwestern Africa. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 111: 99-117.

Pether, J. 1994. The sedimentology, palaeontology and stratigraphy of coastal-plain deposits at Hondeklip Bay, Namaqualand, South Africa. Unpub. M.Sc. thesis, University of Cape Town, 313 pp. 5

Pether, J. 1995. Belichnus new ichnogenus, a ballistic trace on mollusc shells from the Holocene of the Benguela region, South Africa. Journal of Paleontology 69: 171-181.

Pether, J, Roberts, D.L. and Ward, J.D. 2000. Deposits of the West Coast (Chapter 3). In: Partridge, T.C. and Maud, R.R. eds. The Cenozoic of Southern Africa. Oxford Monographs on Geology and Geophysics No. 40. Oxford University Press: 33-55.

Roberts, D.L., Botha, G.A., Maud, R.R. and Pether, J. 2006. Coastal Cenozoic Deposits (Chapter 30). In: Johnson, M. R., Anhaeusser, C. R. and Thomas, R. J. (eds.), The Geology of South Africa. Geological Society of South Africa, Johannesburg/Council for Geoscience, Pretoria: 605-628.

CONFERENCE REPORTS/ABSTRACTS

1986. The Late Tertiary and Early Quaternary marine deposits of the coast of Namaqualand, Cape Province. Institute of Coastal Research, University of Port Elisabeth, Report No. 12: 50-60.

1986. Fossil molluscs from Hondeklipbaai. Fourth Conference of the Palaeontological Society of South Africa, Abstracts.

1987. Shallow marine deposition in the Pliocene of Namaqualand. Sixth National Oceanographic Symposium, Stellenbosch. Handbook: B-27.

1989. Relict to Recent Mollusca: a potential for Benguela history. Conference on Geosphere-Biosphere change in Southern Africa, Cape Town, Programme and Abstracts: 35.

1989. Summary of western shelf malacological evidence. Proceedings of the Workshop on later Quaternary fluctuations of sea-level 13th March, 1989, University of Cape Town.

1989. The malacofauna of late Quaternary transgressions. Proceedings of the Workshop on later Quaternary fluctuations of sea-level 13th March, 1989, University of Cape Town..

1995. Molluscan evidence of climatic change from the western shelf. XII Biennial Conference of the Southern African Society for Quaternary Research, Abstracts, 9-10.

POPULAR

1987. Curious conches from bygone beaches. Sagittarius 2 (1): 7-9.

1988. Provinces past and present. Sagittarius 3: 2- 4.

1990. West Coast Excursion. Geobulletin, The Geological Society of South Africa 33(3): 24-26.

SUMMARY HISTORY

1956. Born in Cape Town on the 19th June.

1973. Matriculated First Grade, Westerford High School, Newlands.

1974. Research technical assistant, Division of Sea Fisheries, Walvis Bay. Involved in monitoring of pelagic fishing and in oceanographic and biological research cruises.

1977. B.Sc. student, Geology major, University of Cape Town.

1980. Geologist, Trans-Hex Group (Buffelsbank Diamante, Terra Marina). Diamond exploration onshore and offshore, including ore-body delineation at Hondeklip Bay, prospecting of modern beaches and shoreface, including side-scan sonar mapping. Mapping of south bank Orange River terraces (Baken).

1981. B.Sc., Geology major, University of Cape Town.

1983. B.Sc. Honours, University of Cape Town.

1984. Joined the South African Museum as Professional Officer in the Department of Cenozoic Palaeontology. Researcher of the palaeontology, sedimentology and palaeoenvironments of coastal-plain deposits and deposits of the continental shelf. Duties also involved field collection of invertebrate and vertebrate fossils, their conservation and curation. Honourary curator of the modern Mollusca collection. Participated in educational programmes by giving lectures, courses and preparing displays.

1994. M.Sc. degree awarded with distinction (UCT).

1996. Senior Project Geologist, De Beers Marine. Data acquisition, management, analysis, synthesis and report compilation involving inter alia: field observations, logging and sampling; development 6

of routine field logging criteria, recording procedures and training for operational personnel; sample analysis and interpretation; geological and geophysical interpretation; seabed geotechnical characterization; consultation to peers within the company; project planning; input to local and regional geological models, including within the wider De Beers Group companies.

2004 – Present. Independent Consultant/Researcher.

Currently an independent consultant to Afri-Can Marine Minerals Corp. as a member of the exploration team.

Consultant to EIA/HIA projects, contributing palaeontological impact assessments (PIAs) and mitigation recommendations in terms of the National Heritage Resources Act 25 (1999).

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Harriet Clift

 

Historical Archaeologist – Archival & Deeds Research

   

Harriet - the joys of sandbagging, Shell Midden Complex, Pinnacle Point, Mossel Bay - winter 2008

 

Harriet holds a Masters degree (University of Cape Town, South Africa) in historical archaeology and also specializes in archival and deeds research.  In addition to considerable experience in the above fields, she also acted as Field Director for CHARM during excavations of coastal shell midden sites on South Africa’s south coast.  See more about Harriet on www.hclift.co.za 

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Kathleen Schulz

Historical researcher specialising in archival and deeds office research.  Kathleen has extensive experience in a variety of heritage related subjects – see CV below for further details.

 

feels like home - Kathleen - Suikerbuilt 145

“She is a passionate researcher, someone who is able to interpret historical information beyond the written text. Her extensive use of Archival and Deeds Office resources enables her to provide concise and pertinent research reports.”

 I have known Kath for longer than I care to mention and have great respect for everything she does.  See further details in her CV posted below.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CURRICULUM VITAE

 

KATHLEEN SCHULZ -RUBIN

 

(Updated February 2010)

 

Personal Details

ADDRESS:                                                        11 Boekenhout Street

                                                                        George – 6529                                                               

TELEPHONE NUMBER                                      082 563 7927

E MAIL ADDRESS                                                kschulz@absamail.co.za                                         

BIRTHDAY                                                       15 January 1949

MARITAL STATUS                                            Divorced

CURRENT EMPLOYMENT STATUS                   Contractor: Specialist Historical Researcher

NUMBER OF CHILDREN                                    4 (adult)

STATUS OF HEALTH                                        Excellent

VALID DRIVERS LICENCE                                CODE 08

ABRIDGED BACKGROUND

1967-1976 Pietermaritizburg – Natal

Employer: Shepstone & Wylie Attorneys 

Position:  Deeds Office Researcher

Deeds searches of significance included the annual Durban Municipal rates search, (tracing owners of properties) and searches for ESCOM, tracing ownership and restrictive clauses attached to properties over which pylons were to be built.

Volunteer work

Pietermarizburg Museum 

Position:  Volunteer Researcher

Researched archival material pertaining to 17th century ship wrecks along the

Eastern Cape shorelines for Professor Tim Maggs (Archaeologist).  This material

was used in a paper presented at the 1979 World Conference of Archaeologists

held in Cape Town.   

Spent one year in London.

1977-1981 Stellenbosch

Employer: Stellenbosch University, Archaeology Department

Position: Part time research assistant

Duties included:

Sorting artifacts from the late iron-age site ‘Boomplaas’ (in the Cango region) for Professor H Deacon; 

Oral interviewing of Nama inhabitants at Leliefontein, Namaqualand, in order to establish seasonal migratory patterns;

Artwork for publications.

Employer: Self

Position: Craft Market co-ordinator and Potter

Established a Saturday morning street market in Stellenbosch known as the ‘Dorp Steeg’ market. 

 

Employer: Progressive Federal Party

Position: Part time administrator – Stellenbosch

Duties included:

Organizing political speakers to address student audiences;

Administering student and adult committees; 

Organizing fund raising events;

Delegating duties to volunteer election workers.

1982-1989 George

Employer: George Museum

Position: Volunteer Researcher

Duties included:

Research of woodcutters in the Knysna forests and the original Dutch East India Company settlement in the George.

Research was undertaken in the Cape Town Deeds Office and Cape Town Archives.

1990-1993 Cape Town

Employer: University of Cape Town – Department of Historical Archaeology

Position: Researcher and co-ordinator of Contract Archaeology unit. 

Duties included:

  • Research of 17th and 18th century Dutch class structures and gender issues for Professor Martin Hall.
  • Co-ordination of archaeological contract field trips;
  • Administration of the Contracts Office;
  • Committee member and co-ordinator of archaeological world conference held at UCT in 1991(SAE3);

1993-May 1995 Cape Town                              

Employer: Self

Position: –  Archival and Deeds Researcher

Research commissions or projects assigned included:

  • 17th century Vergelegen Cape Farm

Specific assignment to trace the slave ancestry of 17th century slaves residing at Vergelegen – in an attempt to identify the female skeletal remains found in the Vergelegen ‘slave lodge’ during archaeological excavations.  Report delivered to Dr Anne Markell, U C T.   Genealogical lines were traced for 16th and 17th century owners of Vergelegen.

  • Elsenburg Agricultural College

A tender bid was successful to provide historical background to the Agricultural College for the purpose of promoting tourism and public relations.  Research included a full 17th and 18th century archival and deeds search.  Genealogical lines were traced for owners of the farm.

  • 18th-19th century – Block LL Central Cape Town research
  • Directed by Dr Antonia Malan of UCT Archaeology Department to provide an in-depth report on the deeds records for a central block in the Cape Town urban grid.
  • 18th century – Gabled homesteads of the Western Cape
  • Professor Martin Hall UCT- Historical Archaeology contracted my services intermittently when funds were available, to gain more information on builders of gabled 18th century homes of the Cape.  The elements of rural aristocracy were researched and compared with known vernacular styles of early farmsteads.
  • Lost City of the Kalahari

Mr. A Castiglioni of Centro Ricerche su Deserto Orientale, Milan, Italy, requested a feasibility report on the viability of locating the so-called “Lost City of the Kalahari”.

  • 17th century – Cape Town Gardens

Dr Pamela Rodetti of London University requested a full archival search for the various botanical species planted in the Cape Town Gardens during the 17th century.

  • 17th century – Copper mining, West Cape Coast

Dr. Duncan Miller, UCT requested an extensive report on copper mining activities in Namaqualand during 17th century.

  • Calitzdorp

Professor Garth Sampson (Archaeology Department – Methodist University Dallas, Texas), employed my services to establish the land lineage of the Karoo town, Calitzdorp.

  • Op-Onder Sneeuwberg

Professor Sampson also requested a full investigatory archival/deeds search, depicting migratory and settlement patterns of 18th century Trek Boers in the Graaff-Reinet region of Op-Onder Sneeuwberg.

1995 Botswana                        

Employer: Professor Pierre de Marais, University of Brussels

Position:  Researcher

Duties included:

Identifying indigenous potters of Botswana;

Interviewing potters;

Recording techniques used in constructing pots;

Recording mythology of ceramic decoration;

Mapping clay source sites.

1996-2001 George

Employer: Commission on Restitution of Land Rights – Department of Land Affairs

Instrumental in establishing the Land Restitution office in George.

Position: Researcher

Duties included:

  • Deeds and archival research.
  • Compilation of research reports for community and urban land restitution claims in the South Cape region.
  • Pre-settlement negotiations involving stakeholders of land claims.
  • Assistance with compilation of Ministerial Submissions for Land Settlement Agreements and Mandates to Negotiate.
  • Close collaboration with NGO sectors and claimants.
  • General office administration.

 During the period of employment a thorough understanding of land dispossessions and political background pertaining to the South Cape region was acquired.

Courses attended        

  • Employment Equity and Culture Change in Management.
  • Mediation and Arbitration – Land Reform.
  • Applying Project Management to Public Service Delivery.
  • Land Restitution – Policy and Implementation.
  • Participatory Planning for Effective Legal Entities (Land reform).
  • Prescribed Personal Performance Management Systems workshops.

Reason for resignation: Burn out, health was suffering.

2002 -2004

Employer                                             Department of Arts, Culture and Sport

Position:                                              Researcher

Duties included:                                  

Detailed research and text writing for museum display purposes : Client,George Museum.

Subject: ‘The Story of Forced Removals executed by previous Governments within the George

Municipal boundary’.

2005

Consultancy work. Providing the history component of Heritage Impact

Assessments for proposed developments in Southern Cape.

Projects delivered to Environmental Consultants HilLand Associates, George;

   Hoogekraal Leasure Lifestyles (Glentana)

   De Gouritz (Gouritz river mouth)

   Outeniquabosch (Hartenbosch)

   Founders Estate (Knsyna)

   Cango Cycle Route (Oudtshoorn)

   Riverhill (Wilderness)

2006

Research tasks included;

  • Le Grand Golfing and Residential Estate. George.

Historical report for Le Grand Golfing and Residential Estate, Gwaing River mouth :   Client Embale Shamba CC.

  • Waterloo Bay Great Fish River.

Historical report for residential estate, Waterloo Bay situated on the eastern bank of the Great Fish river. The report provided historical supplementary information requested by Ms M Attwell – Heritage Consultant, Cape Town, for the purpose of compiling a heritage impact assessment.  : Client, Crawford and Company/Shand Environmental Consultants.

  • Suikerbult Community – Oudtshoorn.

Suikerbult community were dispossessed of their land rights in 1968. Burial grounds existed on the dispossessed land which lay fallow until 2001. In 2001 Oudtshoorn Municipality built housing units on Suikerbult land, partially destroying the demolished and disused burial ground. A facilitated way forward was requested of me by Poem Mooney (Chief, Attaqua Tribe) and the dispossessed Suikerbult community. Successful mediation resulted in the community’s request for full reburial of human remains to the Oudtshoorn municipal cemetery being acceded to by Municipality. This project was assisted by SAHRA (South African Heritage Resource Agency) field workers and the University of Cape Town’s Contract Archaeology team.

 2007     McGregor Heritage Training Programme.      

South African Heritage Resource Agency employed my services to provide archival research training to seven heritage trainee students resident in McGregor. The programme was sponsored with SA Lotto funding and the contract duration was three months. Training included a one week practical course in Cape Town during which students were familiarized with research resource centres, namely the Cape Town Archives, Cape Town Deeds Office and Mowbray Surveys and Mapping offices. Students were provided with a research methodology toolkit, compiled and presented by myself. The toolkit was tailored to their particular research project needs. Additional training periods were executed every three weeks for three/four days at a time in McGregor.

             Prince Albert Museum.

Three months was spent in Prince Albert with the Prince Albert Museum Volunteer Group – sorting and cataloging the museum’s paper and photographic collection. Guidance and additional support was provided by the Department of Arts Culture and Sport, Museum services, George and Cape Town offices.

17th c Cape Town Dutch East India farm Rustenburg, currently occupied by University Cape Town   (UCT).

Sally Titlestad, Cape Town based researcher requested archival research assistance in order to verify the existence of an alleged slave burial site on land intended for development by the UCT.

Robololo, Flenters and Concordia West, housing project, Knsyna.

A report was compiled for Dr. Peter Nillsen Archaeologist, providing the background history of a disused burial ground on land earmarked for a housing project.

 2008 and 2009

Worked closely with local Heritage Practitioner Stefan de Kock, providing historical reports for both Heritage Impact Assessments and Notifications of Intent to Develop for submission to Heritage Western Cape.

Historical Research reports submitted to S. de Kock include: 

  • George Western Bypass Road Project. Notification of Intent to Develop submitted to Heritage Western Cape. (Hereunder referred to as NID) for Western Cape provincial authorities.
  • Groot Brak erf 1992. (NID) and Heritage Impact Assessment (HIA).
  • Tarka, Mossel Bay. Land Restitution Settlement.
  • Eastford (Knysna) Bulk Services. (NID)
  • Erf 157 Pacaltsdorp. Preliminary Heritage Statement.
  • Fairy Knowe. Extensions to the hotel. Section 34(1), submitted to Heritage Western Cape
  • George Mobility Study. Heritage Statement, George Municipal authorities.
  • Heidevalei, Knysna (Land reform programme). (NID)
  • Zwartrivier farm 183. Private client. NID and HIA
  • Grootefontein, Still Bay. Heritage Statement
  • Malgaskraal and Witfontein George (NID) George Municipal authorities.
  • Melkhoutkraal, Knysna (NID) Knysna Municipal authorities.
  • Merweville, Karoo (NID) Beaufort West Municipal authorities
  • Southern Arterial Bypass road.  George Municipal authorites
  • George Museum renovations. Section 34 application (National Heritage Resources Act 25 of 1999).
  • Keurboomstrand erf 157. Report on land use Patterns. Private owner.
  • Hoekwil erf 43. Background research report. Private owner. 
  • Cape Town City Mobility Project. Sub-contracted by Sally Titlestad to source historical pictorial images for street signage from Cape Town railway station to the new soccer stadium in Green Point.

 2010 Projects submitted thus far.

  • George Rand Street Road Extension Project. George Municipal authorities. Expanded NID. 

           Personal research.

  • Compilation of a genealogy data base of early South Cape ethnic race groups. Currently the data base lists 2358 family surnames. Information is obtained from various archival sources including church records, Cape Town Archives, Cape Town Deeds Office and oral sources.  
  • Constant acquisition and collation of archival material relating to the Southern Cape in order to add value to my desk top archive.

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Anthony Manhire

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Anthony - rare image of Field Director excavating - Paternoster shell midden excavations 2006/2007

Anthony - bad weather - winter excavation season, Paternoster 2006/7

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Heritage Resources – Definitions

 

Definitions of Heritage Resources – taken from Heritage Western Cape  Notification of Intent to Develop

 

1          Cultural significance means aesthetic, architectural, historical, scientific, social, spiritual, linguistic or technological value or significance.

2          Heritage resource means any place or object of cultural significance.

            “Place” includes –

(a)       a site, area or region;

(b)       a building or other structure which may include equipment, furniture, fittings and other articles associated with or connected with such building or other structure;

(c)        a group of buildings or other structures [and associated equipment, fittings, etc];

(d)       an open space, including a public square, street or park; and

(e)       in relation to the management of a place, includes the immediate surroundings.

3          Archaeological means –

(a)       material remains resulting from human activity which are in a state of disuse and are in or on land and which are older than 100 years, including artefacts, human and hominid remains and artificial features and structures;

(b)       rock art, being any form of painting, engraving or other graphic representation on a fixed rock surface or loose rock or stone, which was executed by human agency and which is older than 100 years, including any area within 10m of such representation;

(c)        wrecks, being any vessel or aircraft, or any part thereof, which was wrecked in South Africa or in the maritime zone of the Republic, any cargo, debris or artefacts found or associated therewith, which is older than 60 years or which Heritage Western Cape considers to be worthy of conservation; and

(d)       features, structures and artefacts associated with military history which are older than 75 years and the site on which they are found.

4          Palaeontologicial means any fossilised remains or fossil trace of animals or plants which lived in the geological past, other than fossil fuels or fossiliferous rock intended for industrial use, and any site which contains such fossilised remains or trace.

5          Public monuments and memorials means all monuments and memorials –

(a)       erected on land belonging to any branch of … government or on land belonging to any organisation funded by or established in terms of the legislation of such a branch of government; or

(b)       which were paid for by public subscription, government funds, or a public-spirited or military organisation, and are on land belonging to any private individual.

6          Living heritage means the intangible aspects of inherited culture, and may include cultural tradition, oral history, performance, ritual, popular memory, skills and techniques, indigenous knowledge systems and the holistic approach to nature, society and social relationships.

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2008 Reports

Below are Archaeological and/or Heritage Impact Assessment reports submitted and approved in 2008.  Contact CHARM directly for reports earlier than 2008 – also see Peter’s CV.

 

Exploratory Archaeological Excavations

Person(s): Peter Nilssen & Anthony Manhire
Date: 2008
Project:  The Proposed Development of Romansbaai on Portions 2, 17, 18 of Farm Klipfonteyn 711, Romansbaai, Gansbaai, Western Cape Province. Exploratory Investigation of Shell Middens to make Recommendations for Archaeological Mitigation. Prepared For: Danger Point Ecological Development Company (Pty) Ltd and Heritage Western Cape, (HWC permit No. 2008-07-01). CHARM cc Great Brak River
View Report:  http://www.carm.co.za/reports/2008/gansbaai explrtry invest & recommendations for mitigation.pdf
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Archaeological Heritage Impact Assessment

Person(s):  Peter Nilssen
Date:  2008�
Project:  Two Portions of Erf 2861 and the Whole of Erf 6422, Mossel Bay, Magisterial District Eden, Western Cape Province: Proposed Asazani/Zinyoka Subsidised Housing Project.  Prepared for Mr. Francois Theron of CSM Consulting Services (Pty) Ltd
View Report:   http://www.carm.co.za/reports/2008/ahia – asazani & zinyoka.pdf
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Person(s):  Peter Nilssen
Date:  2008�
Project: Erf 14205 (Portion of Erf 1) Oudtshoorn, Magisterial District Eden, Western Cape Province: proposed development of a Shopping Centre. For Chand Environmental Consultants, Ms. Melanie van Breda. CHARM cc Great Brak River
View Report:  http://www.carm.co.za/reports/2008/ahia – oudtshoorn shopping centre.pdf
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Person(s):  Peter Nilssen
Date:  2008�
Project:  Remainder Portion 54 of the Farm Hooge Kraal 238, Magisterial District George, Western Cape Province: proposed development of a small, “Eco Friendly” and environmentally sustainable Health Spa. For Lekala Eco Tourism Management (Pty) Ltd, Ms Karen Waterson. CHARM cc Great Brak River
View Report:   http://www.carm.co.za/reports/2008/ahia – hooge kraal 238 -glentana – george.pdf
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Archaeological Excavations in Mitigation

Person(s):  Peter Nilssen
Date:  2008�
Project:  Of the Series of Test Pits in Areas 1 to 5 of the Pinnacle Point Shell Midden Complex. Erf 15387 and a portion of Erf 2001, Farm Boplaas, Pinnacle Point, Mossel Bay, Western Cape Province. Progress Report Prepared For: Heritage Western Cape – April 2008. CHARM cc Great Brak River
View Report:  http://www.carm.co.za/reports/2008/pinnacle point progress report final april 2008 – with resized pics.pdf
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Person(s):  Peter Nilssen
Date:  2008�
Project:  Erf 15387 and a portion of Erf 2001, Farm Boplaas, Pinnacle Point, Mossel Bay, Western Cape Province. Archaeological Excavations in Mitigation of the Series of Test Pits in Areas 1 to 5 of the Pinnacle Point Shell Midden Complex.  Progress Report Prepared For: Heritage Western Cape. CHARM cc Great Brak River
View Report:   http://www.carm.co.za/reports/2008/pinnacle point midden complex progress report jan 2008.pdf
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2009 Reports

Below are Archaeological and/or Heritage Impact Assessment reports submitted and approved in 2009.  Contact CHARM directly for reports earlier than 2008 – also see Peter’s CV.

 

Archaeological Impact Assessment

Person(s):  Peter Nilssen
Date:  2009
Project: Proposed subdivision and development of Portion 12 of Paapekuil Fontein 281, Cape Agulhas, Overberg, Western Cape Province
View Report:  http://www.carm.co.za/reports/2009/aia – ptn 12 of paapekuil fontein 281 – gm jeffery trust.pdf
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Person(s):  Peter Nilssen
Date:  2009
Project: S24G rectification of unauthorized construction of new gravel road and walls: Portions 12, 13, 15 and 16 of the Farm Kranzfontein 492, Still Bay, Western Cape Province.  prepared for Adv. Altus Joubert, Private bag X32, Benmore, 2010, C/o Ms Berdene van der Merwe, PO Box 651, Stilbaai, 6674 cell: 072 359 6496 berdenefar@vodamail.co.za
View Report: http://www.carm.co.za/reports/2009/aia – kranzfontein stilbaai – berdene v d merwe.pdf
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Person(s):  Peter Nilssen
Date:  2009
Project: Sedgefield Water Supply Augmentation Scheme: Erf 3517, Galjoen Road, Erf 1634, Erf 2445, Bitou Street, Oestervanger Road, Melkhout Street, Erf 3859, Erf 3858 and Erf 3518, Sedgefield, Knysna Municipality, Western Cape Province.  prepared for Knysna Municipality P.O. Box 21, Knysna, 6570, tel 044 302-6383, fax 044 382-0926, nperring@knysna.gov.za,  c/o Ms Melissa Mackay (Cape EAPRAC)
View Report: http://www.carm.co.za/reports/2009/aia – sedgefield water supply augmentation scheme – cape eaprac.pdf
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Person(s):  Peter Nilssen
Date:  2009
Project: Proposed Sand Mine on a portion of Bovenlange Valley 189, Sedgefield, District George, Western Cape Province.  prepared for Alan Cave, Cave Klapwijk Associates, Tel: 012 3624654
View Report: http://www.carm.co.za/reports/2009/aia – bovenlange valley 189.pdf
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Person(s):  Peter Nilssen
Date:  2009
Project: Upgrading and expansion of the Cape St Blaize Independent School on Erf 18985 (Portion of Remainder Erf 2001), Heiderand, District Mossel Bay, Western Cape Province.  prepared for  Curro Holdings (Pty) Ltd,  Mr. Andries Greyling, 021 9791204, a.greyling@curro.co.za, 14 Church Street, Monaco Square, Durbanville, 7550,  c/o Ms Francini Van Staden (Cape EAPRAC)
View Report:  http://www.carm.co.za/reports/2009/aia – erf 18985 – ptn of remndr of erf 2001 – cape st blaize school expansion.pdf
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Person(s):  Peter Nilssen
Date:  2009
Project: Asazani Zinyoka Bulk Water Pipeline Route, Mossel Bay Municipality, Mossel Bay, Western Cape Province.  prepared for MVD Raadgewende Ingenieurs (Suid-Kaap) (Edms.) Bpk. – Mr Danie Wessels,  34 Upper Cross Street, Mossel Bay | P.O. Box 730, Mossel Bay, 6500.  Tel: 044 691 2305/57| Fax: 044 691 3248| mvdmossbay@mweb.co.za.  C/o Ms Sian Davies (Cape EAPRAC)
View Report:  http://www.carm.co.za/reports/2009/aia – asazani zinyoka waterline – cape eaprac.pdf
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Person(s):  Peter Nilssen
Date:  2009
Project: Proposed subdivision and development of Portion 12 of Paapekuil Fontein 281, Cape Agulhas, Overberg, Western Cape Province.  prepared for GM Jeffery Trust,  C/o Mr. Doug Jeffery, P.O. Box 44, Klapmuts, 7625, tel 021 8755272, doug@dougjeff.co.za
View Report: http://www.carm.co.za/reports/2009/aia – ptn 12 of paapekuil fontein 281 – gm jeffery trust.pdf
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Person(s):  Peter Nilssen
Date:  2009
Project: Proposed Construction of a Hotel on Gansevallei 444/38 (Plettenberg Bay), District Knysna, Western Cape Province.  Prepared for Perception Environmental Planning, PO Box 9995, George, 6530,1 082 568 4719
View Report: http://www.carm.co.za/reports/2009/aia – gansevallei 444 ptn 38.pdf
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Person(s):  Peter Nilssen
Date:  2009
Project: Archaeological Heritage Impact Assessment. Remainder Portion 54 of the Farm Hooge Kraal 238, Magisterial District George, Western Cape Province: proposed development of a small, “Eco Friendly” and environmentally sustainable Health Spa.  Prepared for Lekala Eco Tourism Management (Pty) Ltd, Ms Karen Waterson P.O. Box 2343, Brooklyn Square, 0075, 082 444-4538, karenw@lekalaeco.co.za
View Report:  http://www.carm.co.za/reports/2009/ahia – hoogekraal 238 final report – may 2009.pdf
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Person(s):  Peter Nilssen
Date:  2009
Project: with comment on Paleontology. Construction of Sewer Pipelines for Mossdustria and Erf 6422, District Mossel Bay, Western Cape Province. Prepared for Mr. Alex Erens of PD Naidoo & Associates. 044 620 2655 | 082 469 7853 044 8714455 | Alexe@pdna.ca.za
View Report:  to be posted http://www.carm.co.za/reports/2009/AIA – Sewer Pipelines for Mossdustria & Erf 6422 – PD Naidoo & Associates.pdf
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Archaeological Excavations in Mitigation

Person(s):  Peter Nilssen
Date:  2009
Project: of the Series of Test Pits in Areas 1 to 5 of the Pinnacle Point Shell Midden Complex:  Erf 15387 and a portion of Erf 2001, Farm Boplaas, Pinnacle Point, Mossel Bay, Western Cape Province.  2nd Progress Report Prepared For: Pinnacle Point Resorts (Pty) Ltd.  James Hendricks – Cell 083 3091180 james@pinnaclepoint.co.za
View Report:  http://www.carm.co.za/reports/2009/pp smc progress report october 2009.pdf
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Exploratory Archaeological Excavations

Person(s):  Peter Nilssen
Date:  2009
Project:  at PP7: to determine feasibility, strategy & scope for remedial mitigation and conservation.  Erf 15387 and a portion of Erf 2001, Farm Boplaas, Pinnacle Point, Mossel Bay District, Western Cape Province.  Final Report prepared For: Pinnacle Point Resorts (Pty) Ltd,  James Hendricks – Cell 083 3091180 | james@pinnaclepoint.co.za
View Report:  http://www.carm.co.za/reports/2009/pp7 final report & proposal – october 2009.pdf
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Archaeological Mitigation

Person(s):  Peter Nilssen
Date:  2009
Project:  Mitigation of Stone Age artefact scatter. Montagu Country Estate, Breede Rivier Winelands Municipality, Erf 4432 and Portion of Erf 1, Montagu. Doug Jeffery Environmental Consultants, PO Box 44, Klapmuts, 7625, Fax: 021 8755515
View Report:  to be posted
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2010 reports

  

Below are Archaeological and/or Heritage Impact Assessment reports submitted in 2010.  Reports prior to 2008 can be obtained directly from CHARM – also see Peter’s CV.   


Archaeological Mitigation 

Person(s):  Peter Nilssen
Date:  2010
Project:  Archaeological Monitoring of Vegetation Clearing and Earth Moving 
Activities in Mitigation of Development at Paradise Coast – Remainder of the Farm Droogfontein 245, Mossel Bay, Western Cape Province – Progress Report Prepared For: Papilo Investments 33 (Pty) Ltd, PO Box 2500, Northcliff, 2110, Mr Des Yelverton, 044 6982027, 084 2320022, desmondyelverton@live.com
View Report:  http://www.carm.co.za/reports/2010/Paradise Coast – Archaeological Monitoring – progress report March 2010.pdf
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Archaeological Impact Assessment

Person(s):  Peter Nilssen
Date:  2010
Project:  Archaeological Impact Assessment:  Proposed upgrade of Merweville Waste Water Treatment Works, Merweville, Beaufort West Municipality, Central Karoo, prepared for Mr. Patrick Killick, Aurecon South Africa (Pty) Ltd.
View Report:  http://www.carm.co.za/reports/2010/AIA – WWTW Merweville – Aurecon Jan 2010.pdf
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Person(s):    Peter Nilssen
Date:  2010
Project:  Proposed refurbishment of the Ernest Robertson Pipeline, Great Brak River, Mossel Bay Municipality, Mossel Bay, Western Cape Province. prepared for MVD Raadgewende Ingenieurs (Suid-Kaap) (Edms.) Bpk. – Mr Danie Wessels P.O. Box 730, Mossel Bay, 6500
View Report:  http://www.carm.co.za/reports/2010/AIA – Great Brak River – Ernest Robertson Pipeline – MVD – CapeEAPrac.pdf
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Person(s):    Peter Nilssen
Date:  2010

Project:  Proposed development, Amanzi Moya Estate: Remainder Vleeschbaai 251, Misgunst-aan-de-Goutitz 257/2 & Keerom 264, Vleesbaai, Mossel Bay Minicipality, Eden District, Western Cape.  prepared for Cape Environmental Assessment Practitioners, Louise-Mari van Zyl, PO Box 2070, George, 6530
View Report:  http://www.carm.co.za/reports/2010/AIA – Vleesbaai – Amanzi Moya – Cape EAPrac.pdf �
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Person(s):    Peter Nilssen
Date:  2010
Project:  Refurbishment of the Aalwyndal – Bartelsfontein Municipal Water Pipeline, including Erf & Farm numbers 246/220; RE/221; 18/225; 7/225; 14/225; 40/225 & 18/226, Mossel Bay Municipality, Mossel Bay, Western Cape Province prepared for MVD Raadgewende Ingenieurs (Suid-Kaap) (Edms.) Bpk.
View Report:  http://www.carm.co.za/reports/2010/aia – aalwynsdal – bartelsfontein pipeline – mvd – capeeaprac.pdf
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Person(s):    Peter Nilssen
Date:  2010
Project:  Proposed construction of a dwelling on Erf 167 Kleinbrak, Mossel Bay Municipality, Eden, Western Cape prepared for Ms. Cathy Avierinos HilLand Associates Environmental Management Consultants, PO Box 590, George, 6530, Tel: (044) 889 0229, Fax 086 5425248
View Report:  http://www.carm.co.za/reports/2010/AIA – Erf 167 Kleinbrak – HilLand April 2010.pdf
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Person(s):    Peter Nilssen
Date:  2010
Project:  Recommendation regarding an Archaeological Impact Assessment: Proposed Desalination Plant, Erven 4117 and 705, Plettenberg Bay, Bitou, Eden, Western Cape Province.  Prepared for Patrick Killick, Aurecon South Africa (Pty) Ltd.
View Report:  http://www.carm.co.za/reports/2010/Recommendation regarding an AIA – Desalination Plant – Plettenberg Bay – Aurecon.pdf
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Person(s):    Peter Nilssen
Date:  2010
Project:  Archaeological Impact Assessment – with comment on Palaeontology by Dr John Almond:  Proposed Enlargement and Remedial Work on Platrug Dam, Portion 40 of Farm 208, George, Eden, Western Province.  prepared for Ms Cathy Avierinos, HilLand Associates Environmental Management Consultants
View Report:  http://www.carm.co.za/reports/2010/AIA – Farm 485 Plettenberg Bay – Cape EAPrac.pdf
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Person(s):    Peter Nilssen
Date:  2010
Project:  Archaeological Impact Assessment – with comment on Palaeontology by Dr John Almond:  Proposed Moquini Beach Hotel, Erf 14796, Mossel Bay, Eden, Western Province. prepared for Mr. Dale Holder, Cape Environmental Assessment Practitioners (Cape EAPrac)
View Report:  http://www.carm.co.za/reports/2010/AIA – Moquini Hotel – Danabaai – CapeEAPrac.pdf
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Person(s):    Peter Nilssen
Date:  2010
Project:  Archaeological Impact Assessment with comment on Palaeontology by Dr John Almond: Proposed Enlargement and Remedial Work on Platrug Dam, Portion 40 of Farm 208, George, Eden, Western Province.  prepared for Ms Cathy Avierinos, HilLand Associates Environmental Management Consultants
View Report:  http://www.carm.co.za/reports/2010/AIA – Platrug Dam – George Airport – HilLand.pdf
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Person(s):    Peter Nilssen
Date:  2010
Project:  Archaeological Impact Assessment:  Proposed Sedgefield College on Portions 14, 15 & 18 of Farm 187, Sedgefield, George, Eden, Western Cape Province.  prepared for Ms. Cathy Avierinos HilLand Associates Environmental Management Consultants
View Report:  http://www.carm.co.za/reports/2010/AIA – Sedgefield College – HilLand.pdf
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Person(s):    Peter Nilssen
Date:  2010
Project:  Archaeological Impact Assessment:  Proposed Expansion of the Communal Waste Disposal Site on Erf 524, Uniondale, Eden, Western Province.  prepared for Eden District Municipality C/o Mr. Piet Erasmus, Aurecon South Africa (Pty) Ltd
View Report (not running):  http://www.carm.co.za/reports/2010/AIA – Uniondale – Communal Waste Disposal Site – Aurecon.pdf

AIA – Uniondale – Communal Waste Disposal Site – Aurecon.pdf
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Person(s):    Peter Nilssen
Date:  2010
Project:  Scoping Archaeological Impact Assessment with comment on the archaeology of the proposed site for a new substation:  Proposed Beaufort West N1 Wind Energy Farm: 2/158 Lemoenkloof, RE 9/161 Kuilspoort, RE 162 Suid-lemoensfontein and RE 1/163 Bulskop, Beaufort West, Western Province.  prepared for Ms. Louise-Marie van Zyl, Cape Environmental Assessment Practitioners (Cape EAPrac)
View Report (not running):  http://www.carm.co.za/reports/2010/Archaeological Scoping Study – Beaufort West Wind Farm –  CapeEAPrac.pdf

Archaeological Scoping Study – Beaufort West Wind Farm –  CapeEAPrac.pdf
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Person(s):    Peter Nilssen
Date:  2010
Project:  Comment on excavation of a well at Dias Museum, Mossel Bay, Western Province.  For Ms Belinda Mutti, Heritage Western Cape
View Report:  http://www.carm.co.za/reports/2010/Comment on excavation of well at Dias Museum – Mossel Bay – Nilssen 28 June 2010.pdf 
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