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2022 - Gestoptefontein Engravings: Centenary Objects Exhibition & Public Lecture

2022 - Gestoptefontein Engravings: Centenary Objects Exhibition & Public Lecture
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African rock art treasures revealed in the Lovo Massif


African rock art treasures revealed in the Lovo Massif
April 27, 2021CNRS
Located in the north of the former African kingdom of Kongo, the Lovo Massif is home to a number of rock art sites with a history spanning several centuries. The French-Congolese Lovo mission is studying and listing them with the aim of learning more about rock art in central Africa, as well as protecting this little-known heritage.
Seen from the air, the landscape is impressive. Vast limestone outcrops, looking for all the world like a ruined city emerging from the lush vegetation, stretch as far as the eye can see.  But it is deep down in the clefts between the crags that lie the rock art treasures of the Lovo Massif, in the far west of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC): more than a hundred caves and rock faces adorned with geometrical shapes such as crosses, circles and grid patterns, together with lizards and antelopes, figures bearing arrows and guns, and mythical creatures whose o ....

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2021-02 - New Earth Sciences Cluster - Wits University


This new Cluster will further encourage world class research through collaboration, coordination and communications.
The Earth Science Cluster (ESC), a new Dean’s Select Committee in the Research Office, has been formed following a workshop held earlier this month. 
The primary aim of the ESC, situated in the Faculty of Science, is to enhance collaborations, coordination, and communications between the different Earth Sciences entities within the cluster, especially in research, innovation, postgraduate training, teaching, science engagement and public outreach.
The Earth Sciences at Wits does outstanding research and is currently made up of six A-rated researchers, two SARCHI Chairs, two Wits Distinguished Professors, the PV Tobias Chair in Palaeoanthropology, and two Centres of Excellence. There are more than half a dozen research entities located in this cluster, as designated by the Research Office, and some of the researchers are amongst the most highly cited ....

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