Tim Forssman

• Senior Lecturer, University of Mpumalanga

Tim Forssman is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Mpumalanga in Cultural and Heritage Studies. He is a current recipient of the South African National Research Foundation's African Origins Platform Grant, which will fund his research into forager technologies, innovations, and indigenous knowledge systems during the rise of the Mapungubwe state. His research interests include forager-farmer interactions, forager economies, trade dynamics, landscape archaeology, and rock art. Tim's work is carried out under the Hunter-Gatherer Archaeological Research Project.

• 2022–present Senior lecturer, University of Mpumalanga
• 2019–2021 Senior lecturer, University of Pretoria
• 2018–2019 Project leader, PGS Heritage
• 2016–2019 Heritage specialist, HRMS
• 2016–2016 Postdoctoral fellow, University of the Witwatersrand
• 2014–2015 Postdoctoral fellow, University of Pretoria

• 2014 University of Oxford, Doctorate
• 2010 University of the Witwatersrand, Masters
• 2008 University of the Witwatersrand, Honours
• 2007 University of the Witwatersrand, BA

• 2020 Foragers in the middle Limpopo Valley: trade, place-making, and complexity, Archaeopress
• 2012 Bushman rock art: an interpretive guide, 30 Degrees South

• 2022 African Origin Platform Role: Principle investigator Funding Source: National Research Foundation
• 2020 Competitive Programme for Rated Researchers Role: Principle investigator Funding Source: National Research Foundation
• 2019 Scatterlings of Africa Role: Principle investigator Funding Source: Palaeontological Scientific Trust

• Association of Southern African Professional Archaeologists

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