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ANTHROPOLOGICAL AND ROCK ART EXPEDITIONS WITH FRANS PRINS

Southern Africa has arguably the finest, oldest and most prolific rock art on Earth. In the uKhahlamba region the rock art of the San People, the original inhabitants of the region, dates from 3000 to 120 years ago. Dating from 3000 years to 120 years ago, it is a record of their physical and spiritual world. Increasing environmental and political pressures which beset them is also recorded in their rock art.

Frans Prins is a trained anthropologist and archaeologist and has an MA degree in archaeology from the University of Stellenbosch and is currently enrolled as a Ph.D. candidate on social anthropology at Rhodes University. During his career he has been a research associate and lecturer in Archaeology at the Universities of Transkei and Stellenbosch and Head of the Department of Historical Anthropology at the Natal Museum. For more on Old Canvas Expeditions'' anthropological expeditions, click here.

He has assisted an international NGO (Working group for Indigenous Minorities) with the conceptualisation of a San museum near Cape Town, during which he consulted extensively with various San groupings. Frans is currently employed as the Cultural Resource Specialist for the Maloti-Drakensberg Transfrontier Project – a bilateral conservation project funded through the World Bank. This project involves negotiating and consulting with various stakeholders in order to produce a cultural heritage conservation and development strategy for the adjoining transfrontier region of Lesotho and South Africa.

Frans’ research interests include the African Iron Age, palaeo-ecology, rock art research, San ethnography, South African traditional healers and heritage conservation. He has published widely on these topics in both popular and academic publications and is frequently approached by video and film productions in order to assist with research and conceptualisation for programmes on African culture. Frans has wide experience in the fields of museum and interpretative centre displays and has made a significant contribution to the conceptual planning of displays at the Natal Museum, the Golden Horse Casino, Didima Rock Art Centre and !Khwa tu San Heritage centre.

Join us then on a journey into the past and gain insights into our origins and the earliest inhabitants of the World Heritage Site of the Drakensberg-uKhahlamba. For more details see below or email us on info@oldcanvasexpeditions.com.

San Rock Art Expedition  
The largest and oldest repository of rock art anywhere on Earth is to be found in the caves and foothills of the Drakensberg-uKhahlamba World Heritage Site. Read more.....
     

ANTHROPOLOGICAL AND ROCK ART EXPEDITIONS WITH FRANS PRINS

 

  
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