Organic Residue Analysis of First Millennium Pottery from NE South Africa

Contemporary methods and techniques used in the rest of the world also are able to generate more detailed and nuanced data sets. These scientific techniques include Organic Residue Analysis (ORA) (pioneered in NE South Africa by Becher [2021]). This project will systematically use these contemporary methods in combination with Indigenous Knowledge to investigate the changing approach to farming, food processing, plant use and consumption in in the last 2000 year in Mpumalanga