Janette Deacon

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Janette Deacon is affiliated with the following schools: Stellenbosch University, University of Cape Town

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Janette Deacon

Anthropology

#1550

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#2016

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Archeology

#381

World Rank

#555

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Janette Deacon's Degrees

PhD Archaeology University of Cape Town
Masters Archaeology University of Cape Town
Bachelors Archaeology University of Cape Town

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According to Wikipedia, Janette Deacon is a South African archaeologist specialising in heritage management and rock art conservation. She has studied the changes in stone tools from sites in the southern Cape in relation to climate change over the past 20,000 years. From 1985, she located rock engravings at places where the /Xam informants of Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd lived in the nineteenth century. She served as a member of the SAHRA Council and was first chairperson of Heritage Western Cape.

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Janette Deacon's Published Works

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Published Works

Human Beginnings in South Africa: Uncovering the Secrets of the Stone Age (1999) (302)
The Stone Age Archaeology of Southern Africa (1976) (271)
Late Quaternary Palaeoenvironments of Southern Africa (1988) (215)
The later Stone Age of southernmost Africa (1984) (214)
SOUTH AFRICAN AND LESOTHO STONE AGE SEQUENCE UPDATED (I) (2012) (213)
The Evidence for Herding at Boomplaas Cave in the Southern Cape, South Africa (1978) (115)
Wilton: An Assessment after Fifty Years (1972) (104)
Changing Patterns in the Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene Prehistory of Southern Africa as Seen from the Nelson Bay Cave Stone Artifact Sequence (1978) (82)
Patterning in the Radiocarbon Dates for the Wilton/Smithfield Complex in Southern Africa (1974) (72)
'My place is the bitterpits': the home territory of Bleek and Lloyd's /Xam San informants (1986) (66)
The power of a place in understanding southern San rock engravings (1988) (66)
An Unsolved Mystery at the Howieson's Poort Name Site (1995) (65)
Montagu Cave in Prehistory: A Descriptive Analysis (1974) (59)
Time and Place: Some Observations on Spatial and Temporal Patterning in the Later Stone Age Sequence in Southern Africa [with Comments and Reply] (1980) (58)
Later Stone Age Hunters and Gatherers of the Southern Transvaal (1987) (48)
The Hafting, Function and Distribution of Small Convex Scrapers with an Example from Boomplaas Cave (1980) (44)
Four Painted Stones from Boomplaas Cave, Oudtshoorn District (1976) (41)
Rock Art Conservation and Tourism (2006) (40)
The Indigenous Artefacts from Oudepost I, a Colonial Outpost of the VOC at Saldanha Bay, Cape (1989) (34)
The later stone age in Southern Cape, South Africa (1982) (33)
Experimental Determination of Use Wear on Stone Adzes from Boomplaas Cave, South Africa (1986) (29)
Rock Art: A Cultural Treasure at Risk (2016) (23)
Arrows as agents of belief amongst the /Xam Bushmen (1992) (22)
The courage of //kabbo: celebrating the 100th anniversary of the publication of Specimens of Bushman folklore (2014) (21)
Archaeological Sites as National Monuments in South Africa: A Review of Sites Declared since 1936 (1993) (21)
Report on Stone Artefacts from Duinefontein 2, Melkbosstrand (1976) (19)
A regional management strategy for rock art in Southern Africa (1997) (17)
Designing Digital Recording for Volunteers in Rock Art Surveys, Management Plans and Public Outreach in the Cederberg, South Africa (2018) (17)
Managing heritage in Africa : who cares? (2017) (12)
Rock art and changing perceptions of southern Africa's past: Ezeljagdspoort reviewed (1993) (12)
Burkitt's milestone (1986) (12)
Fragile Heritage. A Rock Art Fieldguide (1999) (12)
The Cinderella Metaphor: The Maturing of Archaeology as a Profession in South Africa (1993) (9)
Peeling Away the Past: The Display of Excavations at Nelson Bay Cave (1993) (9)
Approaches and trends in African heritage management and conservation (2017) (9)
The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Archaeology (1982) (8)
Unconquerable spirit. George Stow's history paintings of the San (2009) (8)
South African rock art (1999) (7)
Some small harvest (1986) (7)
Part I: Cultural Material from the Gamtoos Valley Shelters (Andrieskraal I) (1965) (6)
Working with Rock Art: Recording, Presenting And Understanding Rock Art Using Indigenous Knowledge (2012) (6)
Promotion of a neglected heritage at Stone Age sites in the Western Cape, South Africa (1995) (4)
Bushman Letters. Interpreting IXam narrative (2011) (4)
Reply to Wilson, van Rijssen, Jacobson and Noli (1990) (4)
Short report: Geoheritage in the Matjiesrivier Nature Reserve, a World Heritage Site in the Cederberg, South Africa (2020) (2)
Heinrich Vedder's the Bergdama. An Annotated Translation of the German Original with Additional Ethnographic Material (2006) (2)
The Legal and Political Framework for Archaeology and the Protection of Archaeological Resources in South Africa (2020) (2)
An Overview of the History of the Nomination of Cultural World Heritage Sites in Africa (2014) (2)
A Supplementary Bibliography of the Archaeology of Zambia 1967-1973 (1976) (1)
Heritage Resource Management in South Africa (2010) (1)
Conversations That Captivate, Paintings as Postscripts (1998) (1)
Correction of a Radiocarbon Date from Kangkara (1990) (1)
Monuments and Sites South Africa (1996) (1)
The British Museum and Its Collections (1983) (1)
Bushman Letters. Interpreting |Xam narrative by Michael Wessels : book review (2011) (0)
Heritage resources and governance (2003) (0)
What can my MDO do for me (2016) (0)
Remembrance: Dr. Patricia Joan Vinnicombe, 1932–2003 (2003) (0)
The South African archaeological society (SAAS) and COVID-19 (2020) (0)
Archaeological sites as national monuments (1992) (0)
Deciphering ancient minds. The mystery of San bushman rock art [Book Review] (2011) (0)
uKhlahamba Drakensberg and Mapungubwe:Contrasts in South Africa’s World Heritage Rock Art Sites (2010) (0)
The effect of grazing regimes on Aardwolf densities in Namibia (2006) (0)
A Sandal from a Cave near Oudtshoorn (1990) (0)
Palaeontology and the National Monuments Council (1993) (0)
Reviews (2014) (0)
Aron Mazel uKhahlamba Drakensberg and Mapungubwe Contrasts in South Africa ’ s World Heritage Rock Art Sites (2011) (0)
Dunes, archaeology and the National Monuments Act (1996) (0)
Deacon, Hilary John (2020) (0)
Designing Digital Recording for Volunteers in Rock Art Surveys, Management Plans and Public Outreach in the Cederberg, South Africa (2018) (0)

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