Past and Present at Wonderwerk Cave (Northern Cape Province, South Africa)

Funding

We would like to extend our warm thanks to: all members of the Wonderwerk Cave team for their enthusiastic and dedicated support of the project; Colin Fortune (ex-Director), Leon Jacobsen (ex-Vice-Director), Sunet Swanepoel (current Director), and Dr. David Morris (Head of the Archaeology Department) of the McGregor Museum for their support of all aspects of our research project; students from University of Toronto, Simon Fraser University, and other academic institutions who have assisted in field work over the years; Neels Lehule, Iris Khabae, and Johhny Esau, the past and present custodians at the cave, for their help during field seasons. We are grateful to Heinz Rüther and the team from the Zamani Project who, along with Steven James Walker, have provided support for mapping in the cave and the surrounding area, to Jacqueline Studer for translating most of the special issue’s abstracts into French, and to Louis Scott, George Brook, and Julia Lee-Thorp for comments on an earlier draft of parts of this manuscript. We would like to acknowledge the invaluable contribution of our friend and colleague the late Hagai Ron, who undertook the paleomagnetic analysis of Wonderwerk Cave, and to whom this special issue is dedicated. Fieldwork at the site is carried out under permit issued by the South African Heritage Resources Agency (SAHRA) and analysis of the archaeological assemblages under the terms of a signed agreement between MC and the McGregor Museum. The current research program builds on the earlier work of Peter Beaumont at the site. Research at Wonderwerk Cave has been funded over the years by grants to MC from the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Wenner-Gren Foundation and the Halbert Academic Exchange Fund, University of Toronto. We are particularly grateful to Adria LaViolette for the opportunity to publish this issue and for the editorial guidance she has provided.