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Dr. Aron Mazel - En-compass team, Newcastle University

Email: a.d.mazel@ncl.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)191 222 7845

Following a long career in research and museum management in South Africa, Aron Mazel moved to Newcastle University in the middle of 2002 to lead the ‘Northumberland Rock Art: Web Access to the Beckensall archive’ project (rockart.ncl.ac.uk). After the completion of this project, he took up a lecturing position at ICCHS in January 2005.

Aron Mazel’s research interests include:

• The management and interpretation of cultural heritage
• History of South African museums
•The construction of hunter-gatherer archaeological history, including the integration of
information derived from excavations with that from rock art (research area: Thukela basin,
South Africa)
• The absolute and relative dating of rock art
• Northumberland rock art
• The portrayal of San hunter-gatherer and Black farming community archaeological history in
South African schools textbooks and museums since the 1970s
• Changing interpretations of hunter-gatherer history

Aron Mazel

Qualifications

BA (1977), BA Hons (1978), MA (1981), PhD (1988). All University of Cape Town

Memberships

• Association of Southern African Professional Archaeologists (ASAPA)
• British Rock Art Group (BRAG)
• Council for British Archaeology (CBA)
• Museums and Galleries History Group (MGHG)
• Pan African Association for Prehistory and Related Studies
• South African Archaeological Society
• South African Museums Association
• The Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne

Honours and Awards

The 'Northumberland Rock Art: Web Access to the Beckensall Archive' website won the 2006 British Archaeological Awards ICT Category.

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