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as part of the Public Lecture Series\u00a0Rock Art & Symbolic Expression.\u00a0A Southern Africa\u00a0\u2013 France Dialogue<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sci-Bono Discovery Centre Auditorium, Miriam Makeba St & Helen Joseph Street,\u00a0<\/em>Newtown, Johannesburg<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n D\u00e9cio Jos\u00e9 Dias Muianga<\/strong> is a Mozambican archaeology researcher and lecturer at the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology of Eduardo Mondlane University. As a researcher, he has been involved in many archaeology and heritage management projects in Mozambique, and he provided academic backup support about \u201cSpace, Resources & Culture of Mozambique: 0-1600\u201d. His lectures cover a wide diversity of subjects, from \u201cGenesis of Human Evolution\u201d to \u201cHunter-gatherers Societies of the World\u201d and \u201cRock Art of the World\u201d. As a whole, his scientific involvement ranges from rock art research to Stone Age areas, as well as Early Farming Communities and underwater technology.<\/p>\n Since 2012 he has also been conducting research in Public Policy and Culture at Kaleidoscopio, namely in order to design and manage archaeological, historical and heritage projects in Mozambique. There, he led several archaeological impact assessments and he designed archaeological impact assessments and heritage education programs.<\/p>\n D\u00e9cio Muianga studied at the Rock Art Research Institute of the University of the Witwatersrand, from which he graduated in with MA in archaeology. There, he was able to nurture a comprehensive approach of his research field, by seizing every opportunity to join prehistorical research-related projects: ceramic, Rock Art, Lithic technology, photography courses adapted to exhibitions\u2026 As a postgraduate student, he further trained in archaeological survey, artefacts excavation and analysis, archaeological exhibition organisation as well as sites tour guiding, while participating in Heritage Management Plans and supervising undergraduate students in fieldwork activities. Such activities allowed him to witness the archaeological diversity of the region outside of Mozambique, notably in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Botswana.<\/p>\n As a member of The Association of Southern African Professional Archaeologists (ASAPA), he was licensed to carry out Archaeological Impact Assessment in Mozambique and SADC Region in 2008. In 2010, he also became a member of The Pan-African Association of Archaeology and Related Studies as part of the Forum for the qualified research Africans archaeologists. He is the author of several publications, such as \u201cEpisodes and relationships in the Rock Art of HOR-1\u201d, \u2018Rock Art and Ancient Material Culture of Cahora Bassa Dam\u201d and the article \u201cConserva\u00e7\u00e3o de esta\u00e7\u00f5es arqueol\u00f3gicas com pinturas rupestres\u201d of the Manual de Conserva\u00e7\u00e3o do Patrim\u00f3nio Cultural Im\u00f3vel em Mo\u00e7ambique<\/em>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n >\u00a0RSVP<\/a><\/p>\nThursday 14 June 2018<\/h4>\n
18:00 for 18:30 | Sci-Bono Speak2AScientist<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n
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