RESEARCH LABS AND PROJECTS
THE HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY RESEARCH GROUP (HARG)
The HARG was established in the 1980s through the stewardship of Emeritus Professor Martin Hall, Dr Antonia Malan and Dr Jane Klose. The labs research focused on the material residue of colonial interactions in the Cape Colony. With a change in leadership, Emeritus Associate Professor Simon Hall shifted the labs focus towards the rural manifestations of colonialization and subjugation.
In December 2020, Dr Vuyiswa Lupuwana took over the lab and at present the lab has graduated 3 students with a concentration on historical archaeology in Africa. Dr Lupuwana’s focus is on the process of being colonised and how that manifests through material culture. Further to this, the lab has moved towards a digital archaeology approach intergrated in practices of social justice and archaeologies of care.
The Remembrance Project
The Remembrance Project is a collaborative community project whose goals are to amplify the access communities have to archaeological sites and resources. The project aims to strengthen community links with the archaeology of the Holocene and that of the last-500 years.
Digital Archaeological Heritage Research Group (DAHRU)
DAHRU has been birthed from the efforts of recording and documenting the corbelled architecture of the Karoo. Defined explicitly as a vernacular architecture of creolisation, the project seeks to utilise digital tools and methods as a tool towards understanding the economic and social manifestations of colonial society.
Archaeology Goes to the Cinema: Perceptions of Africa and Civilization through the Filmic Lens examines the development of anthropology and the archaeological juxtaposed with the developments of film and television on the African content. This perspective is critical to thinking about how perceptions of identity are formed, and will guide the discourse around decolonial thinking in archaeology. Examining the development of Blackness as a perceived primitive identity is critically linked to the visual world and projections of Blackness in photographs, film and other forms of visual media; interrogating these visual objects in juxtaposition with the development of the archaeological discipline will be the critical addition to the body of scholarship.
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It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world.
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It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world.