Department of Anthropology and Archaeology
| College of Human Sciences |
| School of Humanities |
| Department: Anthropology and Archaeology |
| Lecturer
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| Tel: |
012 429 6846
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| E-mail: |
behrejp@unisa.ac.za
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Qualifications
- BA (Hons) (Archaeology) (University of Cape Town)
- MA (Archaeology) (University of Johannesburg)
- PhD Candidate (Archaeology) (Syracuse University)
Field of Specialisation
- Historical archaeology
- African archaeology
- Colonial frontiers and culture contact studies
- 19th and 20th century material culture studies
- Archaeologies of identity
- Landscape archaeology
- Archaeologies of mission
Books
- Behrens, J. & Swanepoel, N. 2018. Many worlds colliding: historical archaeologies in South Africa in Oxford handbook of historical archaeology. Edited by James Symonds & Vesa-Pekka Herva. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Behrens, J. and Swanepoel, N. 2008. Historical archaeologies of southern Africa: precedents and prospects in Five hundred years rediscovered southern African precedents and prospects. Edited by Natalie Swanepoel, Amanda Esterhuysen & Philip Bonner, pp. 23-39. 500 Year Initiative Conference Proceedings, 2007. Wits University Press: Johannesburg.
- Behrens, J. 2004. Navigating the liminal: an archaeological perspective on South African industrialisation in African historical archaeologies. Edited by Andrew Reid & Paul Lane, pp. 347-373. Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers: New York.
Journal articles
- Behrens, J. 2007. A New Initiative in Southern African Archaeology. Editorial. South African Archaeological Bulletin 186: 89.
- Behrens, J. 2005. The Dynamite Factory. An industrial landscape in late 19th century South Africa. Historical Archaeology 39(3): 61-74.
- Esterhuysen, A.B., Behrens, J. and Harper, P. 1994. Leliehoek Shelter: A Holocene Sequence from the eastern Orange Free State.The South African Archaeological Bulletin 160:73-78.
- Behrens, J. 1992. European Artefacts from Rose Cottage Cave. The South African Archaeological Bulletin 155:13-15
