Published by Purnell & Sons (Sa) (Pty) Ltd Keerom Street Cape Town South Africa Publishing date 1971 SBN 360 00105 X Set In 11 On 12 Point Monotype Baskerville Printed And Bound In South Africa By The Gothic Printing Company Observatory Cape Town Topic Archaeology Language English
The fossilised man-apes of Makapansgat, the might of Monomotapa.
The gold rhinoceros of Mapungubw1e, ‘the painted eland of the D1rakensberg. The hand-axes of the
Earlier Sto,ne Age, the ritual burial:s of the Lat1er Stone Age.
Cosmetic mines in Swaziland, gold mines in Rhodesia.
These are, just a few of the intriguing subjects covered by this lively account of archaeology
and prehistory in Southern Africa.
From his practical fieldwork. his comprehensive reading and his personal acquaintance with
most of the leading figures, Bert Woodhouse has compiled an absorbing story. It is written
for the general reader and illustrated with the author’s own photographs.
Bert Woodhouse is a member of the committee and past chairman of the Witwatersrand Centre of the
South Africa Archae1ological Society, With Neil Lee he is the co-author of Art on the Rocks of
Southern Africa. He is a member of the Board of Governors of the Museums of Man and Science in Johannesburg. Although an amateur, for the past
seven years Mr. Woodhouse has made it a personal disc1ip1line to deliver a paper on some
aspect of rock art to the annual cong1ress of the South African Association for
the Advancement of Science.