🌍📣 Exciting News! 📣🌍
The Southern African Archaeology Student Society (SAASS) is heading to SAfA 2025 in Faro, Portugal!
🗓 Wednesday, 23 July 2025
⏰ 10:45 – 11:00
Session 8: Community Outreach and Public Engagement in Africa
Come join us if you're heading to SAfA too!
16.07.2025 13:20 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
🎓 Careers in Archaeology and Heritage Spotlight
Meet Precious Chiwara-Maenzanise, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow making waves in the field of archaeology and heritage!
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14.07.2025 13:17 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🚀 New Blog Post Alert!
Ready to turn your research idea into a funded project? 💡💰
📚 Tips, tools & lessons from experience
🎓 For students, early-career researchers & beyond
📝 Available now on our blog!
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09.07.2025 13:07 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🌍 Join us for an inspiring webinar! 🌍
"Volunteering for World Heritage: Educational and Cultural Perspectives from Madagascar"
🗓 Date: 3 July 2025
⏰ Time: 3 PM (CAT)
💻 Platform: Zoom (link to be shared)
🔗 Save the date & spread the word!
25.06.2025 13:07 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
🔬 Ever wondered where science meets heritage?
Meet Patricia Groenewald, a Senior Scientific Officer.
👩🔬 Careers in archaeology and heritage aren’t just about digging—science plays a key role too!
www.saassarchaeology.com/scientific-o...
16.06.2025 13:20 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🎉 FREE to join! 🎉
SAASS connects archaeology students across the SADC region. Talks, workshops, networking & more!
Join us: www.saassarchaeology.com/join-saass
📩 officialsaasc@gmail.com
#SAASS #Archaeology #StudentSociety #SouthernAfrica
11.06.2025 09:26 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Get ready for an unforgettable week of growth, connection, and discovery! The 11th annual SAASS Student Development Workshop is happening 1–5 December 2025 🎉
✨ Stay tuned for more details and how to apply!
#SAASS2025 #StudentWorkshop #SaveTheDate #ArchaeologyCommunity #HeritageMatters
09.06.2025 14:14 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
🌍 Africa Day 2025 🌍
Today, we celebrate the unity, strength, and vibrant diversity of our continent. On this day in 1963, the Organisation of African Unity was founded—laying the foundation for the African Union and our shared vision for freedom, dignity, and development.
25.05.2025 08:32 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
We are hosting a free online ‘Ask Us Anything’ event as part of the Integrating ZooMS and Zooarchaeology workshop series. For more info and to submit questions: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
📅 Date: June 30, 2025
🕒 Time: 15:00 CET
📍 Location: Online (link: univ-tlse2.zoom.us/j/9775805212...)
15.05.2025 07:45 — 👍 19 🔁 16 💬 2 📌 9
🗓️ Date: Friday, 30 May 2025
🕒 Time: 15:00 – 16:00
📍 Venue: The Wits Anglo American Digital Dome, Yale Road, Braamfontein Campus East
23.05.2025 08:19 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
🖼️ Today we celebrate International Museum Day! 🎉
Museums are more than buildings — they’re spaces for connection, curiosity, and community. Whether preserving the past or inspiring the future, museums help us understand our shared heritage.
18.05.2025 10:58 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
🔍 Careers in Archaeology and Heritage
Meet Dr. Tim Forssman, a Senior Lecturer making strides in the field and inspiring the next generation of archaeologists. Whether in the classroom or the field, his work helps uncover the rich tapestry of human history.
www.saassarchaeology.com/careersinarc...
12.05.2025 13:19 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Are you a student or early career pro in archaeology or heritage with a passion for Southern Africa’s past? Join the Southern African Archaeology Student Society
All membership information available here: www.saassarchaeology.com/join-saass
Join us and grow your network, skills, and impact!
09.05.2025 13:07 — 👍 5 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Whohoo
Go Sandee!!!
09.05.2025 13:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🌍 NEW BLOG POST 🌍
What can two 12th-century bronze coins tell us about African trade? 🪙
Discover how Swahili coast currency reveals vast and sophisticated trade networks stretching across the continent and beyond.
🔎 Read the full story by Sandee Oster now!
www.saassarchaeology.com/blog
07.05.2025 14:25 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Proclaimed by the 38th session of the General Conference of UNESCO (November 2015), African World Heritage Day (5 May) is an opportunity for people around the world, and particularly Africans, to celebrate the Continent’s unique cultural and natural heritage.
05.05.2025 10:04 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Go @kathryn-soko.bsky.social, can't wait to read it. 🥰🥰🥰
01.05.2025 14:16 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🌍 Happy Earth Day 2025! 🌱
Today we celebrate our planet and reflect on the steps we can take—big and small—to protect it for future generations. Every action counts. Let’s keep working together to build a greener, more sustainable world. 💚🌿 #EarthDay2025 #RestoreOurEarth #SustainableFuture
22.04.2025 20:42 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
✨ Careers in Archaeology and Heritage: Regional Heritage Officer
Meet Kavenaa Tijuoro, a passionate regional heritage officer dedicated to managing and protecting our heritage resources!
🔗Learn more: www.saassarchaeology.com/copy-of-muse...
14.04.2025 13:18 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🌍 Unearthing the Past: Rare Aardvark Trace Fossils Discovered! 🦴
Exciting new research has uncovered rare aardvark trace fossils along South Africa’s coast.
🔗 www.saassarchaeology.com/blog
#Archaeology #Paleontology #Aardvark #FossilDiscovery #SouthAfrica #ScienceNews
02.04.2025 13:12 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
✨ Careers in Archaeology and Heritage: Museum Curator
Meet Kaarina Shagwanepandulo Efraim, a passionate museum curator dedicated to preserving and sharing our rich history!🏛️
🔗 Learn more: www.saassarchaeology.com/museumcurator (click on our Linktree in our bio and visit our website)
24.03.2025 13:27 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Our 2025 newsletter is here, featuring highlights from 2024 from our incredible student community, exciting archaeology projects, and our amazing sponsors who make it all possible. 📜🏺
Visit our website to read the newsletter
www.saassarchaeology.com/newsletters
14.03.2025 16:43 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
🌟 Happy International Women’s Day! 🌟
Today, we celebrate the strength, resilience, and achievements of women around the world. 💜✨ From the trailblazers who paved the way to the women making history today, we honor your courage, determination, and impact.
Tag a woman who inspires you ✨️
08.03.2025 08:22 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Exciting new discovery! 🦭 Archaeologists have uncovered the first evidence of leopard seal remains in South African coastal deposits. What does this mean for our understanding of past marine ecosystems? Read more in our latest blog post by Sandee Oster! 📖✨
www.saassarchaeology.com/blog
07.03.2025 12:20 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Africanist archaeologist / Assoc Prof @UMich, Curator @UM_Anth_Arch / Human origins, plasticity, foodways, spatiality, social connectivity, hum-env interactions. @DrBrianStewart on Twitter/X
A digital magazine about everything human, told through the stories of anthropologists.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow @UCT Geology | Archaeologist | Stone tools | Early modern humans | She/Her/Hers
PhD candidate at NYU & NYCEP | Archaeologist and Biological Anthropologist interested in primate tool use, early hominin anatomical and cognitive diversity, and the origins of lithic technology ~ she/her
https://ukophulafieldproject.com/
Postdoctoral researcher at the Swedish Museum of Natural History
Biomolecular Archaeology | Historical Ecology |Marine Mammals 🐳
(she/her)
We are a non-profit association founded in 1951 dedicated to Stone Age archaeology, particularly the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic technocomplexes.
This is the Society of American Archaeology's (SAA) Zooarchaeology Interest Group (ZIG). If you're interested in formally joining, sign up for an SAA membership and subscribe to interest groups through the Membership Center!
Associate Professor of Chemistry
passionate educator
believes in growth mentality
votes blue
buys fountain pens
Atlanta Braves fan
she/her
I am an archaeologist who loves pondering the enigmas of bygone eras and sharing brand-new archaeological discoveries
Lecturer at the Palaeo-Research Institute, University of Johannesburg. Co-director of field research at Swartkrans Cave, Amanzi Springs and Wonderboom.
Archaeologist | Earlier Stone Age | Beer enthusiast
PhD candidate at the University of the Witwatersrand
Zooarchaeology
Amateur photographer
Director of research #CNRS
#Prehistory / #HumanEvolution / #HomoSapiens / #Neandertal #Denisova / Lithic technology / #DNA / Middle and Later Stone Age #Africa / Middle and Upper Paleolithic #Eurasia
Auteur de “Nos premières fois” #Flammarion #Lavillebrule
Associate Professor, Paleoclimatology and organic biogeochemistry, University of Notre Dame, she/her
Doctoral Researcher in Archaeological Sciences at @univie.ac.at -
Department of Evolutionary Anthropology. Exploring Late Neanderthal sites in the Palaeolithic - Radiocarbon dating, Paleoproteomics, Stable Isotopes. Yorkshire lass in Vienna.
Interested in ancient proteins & Human Evolution | See @Welkergroup.bsky.social for a lot more fun! | #ERC_PROSPER | Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen | 🦷🦴💀
#archaeologist and #historian in Virginia. Beloit College, University of West Florida, and William and Mary alumnus.
Anthropological archaeologist | PI of Entangled | Senior Research Associate at University of Cambridge
Mapping Africa's Endangered Archaeological Sites and Monuments project funded by Arcadia.
https://maeasam.org
Passionate about uncovering history, committed to heritage. We’re a leading archaeology charity in the UK, trusted by partners and communities for over 50 years. Visit oxfordarchaeology.com for insights on our discoveries and projects.
