Petro KeeneUniversity of the Witwatersrand | wits · Evolutionary Studies Institute
Petro Keene
Honours, Archaeology
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Introduction
I worked as curator on the Blombos Cave and Klipdrift Shelter sites from 2010 to 2019. I have been involved as curator on a number of exhibitions and co curated (with Craig Foster and Jos Thorne) the exhibition titled Origins of Early Sapiens Behaviour. Presently I am involved in an art/archaeology/rock art project with the University of Bergen, Norway, titled Matter Gesture and Soul. I am doing research on cattle motifs in the rock art with a focus on rainmaking.
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January 2010 - December 2014
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Publications (11)
Extended Exhibition Catalogue on the occasion of the Art exhibition: "Dit it up and Put it in a Bag," at Bergen University Museum. The book is a collection of articles in the intersection between Contemporary Art and Archaeology. It is a part of the Artistic Research Project: Matter, Gesture and Soul.
The Middle Stone Age (MSA) of southern Africa, and in particular its Still Bay and Howie-sons Poort lithic traditions, represents a period of dramatic subsistence, cultural, and technological innovation by our species, Homo sapiens. Climate change has frequently been postulated as a primary driver of the appearance of these innovative behaviours, w...
Supporting Information for: Climate, environment and early human innovation: Stable isotope and faunal proxy evidence from archaeological sites (98-59ka) in the southern Cape, South Africa.
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Full faunal and shellfish specimen lists by excavation quadrat.
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Teaching archaeology in southern Africa at all levels of education is characterised by a lack of resources (Segobye 2005).There has been much discussion on archaeological education in schools amongst professionals, but it remains more of a footnote than a fully-fledged direction in the national curriculum (King 2014:85). There is thus ample opportu...
Surveys for archaeological sites in the De Hoop Nature Reserve, southern Cape, South Africa resulted in the discovery of a cave complex comprising two locations, Klipdrift Cave and Klipdrift Shelter. Excavations commenced in 2010 with Later Stone Age deposits initially being recovered at the former site and Middle Stone Age deposits at the latter....
A collection of copies of renditions of rock paintings was the outcome of the 1928 to 1930 expedition to southern Africa by Leo Frobenius and a team of ethnographers and artists. This was the pragmatic Frobenius’s ninth expedition to Africa. He had journeyed to South Africa after having gained considerable experience on the African continent. Frobe...
This poster discusses 'The Dance', a rock art reproduction by M Helen Tongue (1909) housed at the Pre-colonialArchaeology Section of the Iziko Museums. Tongue had spent time copying rock art from sites in the region north of Cra-dock when she was a teacher at Rocklands Girls' High School, Cradock. Dorothea Bleek also taught at the school and Helen...
