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Anton Coetzee (PhD)

@antonscoetzee.bsky.social

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Postdoc with MAEASaM. critical digitisation; digital archaeology and web-based geospatial stuff; rock art; the nature of the copy; museums. brewing 🍺. Based in Johannesburg.

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Anton Coetzee (PhD) @antonscoetzee.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Just returned from some great fieldwork in Tsodilo. More as I sort the mass of images, data and DStretch output...

Sign showing the turnoff towards the Tsodilo Hills in Botswana. Reads 'Tsodilo Hills 35km'

Looking up a cliff, with rock art motifs on the bottom left

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Anton Coetzee (PhD) @antonscoetzee.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

OMG. I was just working on a 1945 pic of this, from the same spot

A black and white picture of Ponte Cestio bridge in Rome, taken in 1945.

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Anton Coetzee (PhD) @antonscoetzee.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Game Pass shelter. 3D model from 3000 images, overview (original is 32000 px wide. Don't think Bsky would be happy with that :-)

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Anton Coetzee (PhD) @antonscoetzee.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

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Anton Coetzee (PhD) @antonscoetzee.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Back from some fieldwork in the Kamberg

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Anton Coetzee (PhD) @antonscoetzee.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

OK. First attempt at painting. Colour's not quite right, but maybe a good start?

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Anton Coetzee (PhD) @antonscoetzee.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

This is a 3D print from the model, and the 3D print alongside a plaster casting made from the print (via a silicone mould). Now to paint it!

A 3D print of the digital model in a person's hand.

A plaster casting alongside the 3D print.

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Anton Coetzee (PhD) @antonscoetzee.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

While well documented (drawings and some photos), the original has been misplaced. So I built a 3D model based on these resources

Drawing of bead and bangle mould, by Frans Roodt (MA, 1993)

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Anton Coetzee (PhD) @antonscoetzee.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Given some of the discourse about copies on here recently, though I'd post a thing I've been working on for a museum. It's a carved schist mould, used in early-mid 19th century Zululand to cast brass beads and wire (for bangles).

A black-and-white photograph of a carved Schist bead and bangle mould excavated in Zululand in 1974.

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Anton Coetzee (PhD) @antonscoetzee.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Just brought up our new server for the Metsemegologolo archaeological archive...

Picture of an Orange Pi 3B SBC next to a colour/scale card.

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