Archival Significance
Woodhouse was a long-serving committee member and past chairman of the Witwatersrand Centre of the South African Archaeological Society, and co-author, with Neil Lee, of Art on the Rocks of Southern Africa. This is a general-audience survey rather than a specialist monograph, valuable as a snapshot of amateur-professional archaeological practice in the region circa 1970.
Institutional Context
Written for the general reader rather than an academic audience, reflecting the South African Archaeological Society’s mission of public engagement, illustrated with the author’s own field photographs.
Content Summary
Surveys archaeology and prehistory across Southern Africa: the Makapansgat man-ape fossils, the Mapungubwe gold rhinoceros, Drakensberg rock art, Earlier and Later Stone Age tool traditions, and mining history including gold mines in Rhodesia and cosmetic-ochre mines in Swaziland.
Research Utility
Useful as an accessible period overview of Southern African archaeology rather than a primary research source, its regional scope, South Africa, Swaziland, Rhodesia, makes it a comparative reference rather than a Rhodesia-specific record.
Abantu Archives Note
Held in-house. Catalogued under Southern Africa given its genuinely region-wide scope, rather than Rhodesia specifically.