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High School History Recap#13 San Rock Art with Dr Tim ForssmanArchaeologist, Dr Tim Forssman, joins William to talk about San Rock Art. These are some of the questions they look at.Who are the San? Were they the only southern Africans that left behind rock art?How do archaeologists find rock art sites?How many rock art sites are there in southern Africa?Tim's favorite rock art site.How did the San go about painting their images? How did they mix their paint?How do you date San rock art? What are some of the oldest sites?What does San rock...2021-04-1040 minHigh School History Recap#8 Bones and Stones InterviewThis is our interview with the team of Bones and Stones. Tim Forssman is an archaeologist at the University of Pretoria and he and his team is on a mission to make archaeology more accessible. They invited us for an episode on their YouTube channel, Bones and Stones. We hope to collaborate with them on an ongoing basis and bring archaeology into the high school history classroom. Find Tim on twitter @Tim4sman. Support the show2021-02-2826 minHigh School History Recap#6 Undoing the Bushman Stereotype with Dr Tim ForssmanIn this second episode with archaeologist Dr Tim Forssman of the University of Pretoria, we take a closer look at his excavations at Little Muck and Dzombo and how the findings are shedding new light on the social relations between the San hunter-gatherers and early farmers of southern Africa. William finds out more about the "Kalahari debate" and the significance of Mapungubwe as an archaeological site. We also try our hand at the motto on South Africa's coat of arms. It is written in the Khoisan language of the /Xam people and is written as !ke e: /xarra //ke...2021-02-0339 minHigh School History Recap#3 Archaeology and Early South African History with Dr Tim ForssmanIn this episode, William talks to archaeologist Dr Tim Forssman about the early history of southern Africa. Tim is a senior lecturer at the University of Pretoria and hosts his own YouTube channel Bones and Stones. Tim helps us define archaeology and explains why Indiana Jones is probably not the best example of what it means to be an archaeologist. We discuss the earliest inhabitants of southern Africa, namely the San hunter-gatherers, and what the archaeological record has to say about them. Why did the San not take up farming? We also take a look at the earliest archaeological e...2021-01-1730 min