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Staff Profile

Dr Aron Mazel

Associate Researcher (previous: Reader in Heritage Studies)

Background

Background


Aron worked at Â鶹´«Ã½ from July 2002 to October 2022, when he retired. He is now an Associate Researcher in the School of Arts and Cultures.


Aron joined the University after a 25-year career in archaeological research and heritage and museum management in South Africa. Posts he held in South Africa included Assistant Director of the Natal Museum (1994-1997) and Director of the South African Cultural History Museum (1998-2002). Between 2002 and 2004, Aron managed the Beckensall Northumberland Rock Art Website Project, which won the 2006 Channel 4 ICT British Archaeological Award. Aron's research interests include the management and interpretation of tangible and intangible heritage; museum history; the construction of the hunter-gatherer past; dating of rock art; and Northumberland rock art.

Book publications include Tracks in a Mountain Range: exploring of the history of the uKhahlamba-Drakensberg (2007, with John Wright), Art as Metaphor: The Prehistoric Rock- Art of Britain (2007, edited with George Nash and Clive Waddington), uKhahlamba: Umlando wezintaba zoKhahlamba/History of the uKhahlamba (2012, with John Wright), Narratives and Journeys in Rock Art: a Reader (2018, edited with George Nash), Indigenous Heritage and Rock Art: Worldwide Research in Memory of Daniel Arsenault (2021, edited with Carole Charette and George Nash), and Signalling and Performance: Ancient Rock Art in Britain and Ireland (2022, edited with George Nash). uKhahlamba: Umlando wezintaba zoKhahlamba is unique in the South African publishing world as it is the first book on archaeology and history in the country to have been published bilingually in isiZulu and English. Aron's PhD, entitled 'People making history: the last ten thousand years of hunter-gatherer communities in the Thukela basin' was published, in 1989, as the inaugural volume of the Natal Museum Journal of Humanities (now Southern African Humanities).


In recent years, Aron has developed exhibitions, contributed images to exhibitions, and has facilitated the reshowing of a photographic exhibition: 

  • In 2014, Myra Giesen and Aron created two interpretive panels for Cockle Park Tower, a Grade I listed building, which is situated on Â鶹´«Ã½'s Cockle Park Farm.
  • Gerard Corsane and Aron developed an international travelling exhibition for the en-compass - an international diamond of cultural dissemination, capacity building with countries from the North, East, South and West project, which ran from 2010-2015 (). The exhibition included six interpretive panels and five cases with objects. It dealt with the importance of safeguarding cultural heritage and was shown in four countries: Fort Jesus (Mombasa, Kenya, 16 September 2014-15 October 2014), Guyana National Museum (Georgetown, Guyana, 26 November 2014-13 December 2014), Great North Museum (Â鶹´«Ã½ upon Tyne, UK, 9 January 2015-1 February 2015), and Hainan Provincial Museum (China), 10-21 June 2015, and Hainan Provincial Library (10-30 August 2015).
  • In 2018, Aron arranged for the reshowing of a photographic exhibition, at the KwaZulu-Natal Museum in Pietermaritzburg (South Africa), which photographer friends and he had created in 1989 during apartheid. As photographers, they challenged the celebrations of the 150th anniversary of the founding of Pietermaritzburg, asking what was there to celebrate. The exhibition, entitled ‘City of Contrasts’ was opened on 18 October 2018, 30 years after the pictures had been taken. The exhibition was shown until May 2019.
  • The KwaZulu-Natal Museum used some of Aron's images in their permanent exhibition about Nelson Mandela in 2018.
  • In 2019, Aron developed a temporary exhibition about the ancient rock art of the uKhahlamba-Drakensberg mountains (South Africa) for the Altamira World Heritage Site museum. Called ‘Colour and Power: San hunter-gatherer rock art in the uKhahlamba-Drakensberg’, the dual-language, English and Spanish, exhibition was shown between 10 September-16 August 2020. This exhibition has since been translated into Norwegian and was shown at the Alta World Heritage Site Museum in Norway (5 June-24 October 2021).
  • In 2021, the Kwazulu-Natal Provincial Service launched an exhibition entitled, ‘The Lion of the Midlands: The Life & Times of Harry Themba Gwala’ at the Old Gaol in Pietermaritzburg. Many of Aron's images were used in the exhibition.
  • Aron worked with the KwaZulu-Natal Museum to create an exhibition of his photographs of Nelson Mandela’s visit to Pietermaritzburg on 2 and 3 April 1990 following the Seven Day War. Entitled ‘Iso loMgungundlovu’ the exhibition was launched online on 9 July 2021. It can be viewed at: https://www.nmsa.org.za/online-exhibition/online-exhibitions.html The museum also made a short support video about the exhibition: .
  • In 2023, Aron worked with the KwaZulu-Natal Museum to create another online exhibition of his photographs entitled 'Wa Thinta Abafazi, Wa Thinta Imbokodo: Women and the anti-apartheid struggle in Pietermaritzburg'.  It can be viewed at:  The exhibition was launched online on 1 August 2023 to coincide with Women's Month in South Africa.
  • In 2025, Aron worked with the KwaZulu-Natal Museum to create another online exhibition of his photographs entitled 'Resistance: anti-apartheid banners, posters and slogans in Pietermaritzburg. It can be viewed at: https://www.nmsa.org.za/online-exhibition/protest-messages.html


Qualifications

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


Previous Positions

2012-2015 Director: International Centre for Cultural and Heritage Studies (ICCHS)

2002- 2004 Research Associate (Archaeology), School of Historical Studies, University of Â鶹´«Ã½ upon Tyne

2002 Head: Research & Interpretation (Social History), Iziko Museums of Cape Town

1998-2002 Director, South African Cultural History Museum

1994-1997 Assistant Director, Natal Museum

1981-1994 Museum Human Scientist (Archaeology), Natal Museum

1979-1981 Temporary Professional Officer (Archaeology), Natal Museum

1978 Tutor (Archaeology), University of Cape Town


Memberships have included

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 Â鶹´«Ã½ upon Tyne


Honours and Awards 

The 'Northumberland Rock Art: Web Access to the Beckensall Archive' website won the 2006 British Archaeological Awards Channel 4 ICT Category.


Esteem indicators (selection)

2018-2023 External Examiner at the University of Exeter, MA/MRes/PGCert/PGDip International Heritage Management and Consultancy 

2018-ongoing Member of the Rock Art Network (hosted by the Getty Conservation Institute)

2011-2016 Member of the International Rock-Art Research Task Group led by Professor Arsenault of the University of Montreal.

2009-Delivered an address at the UNESCO Rock Art and the World Heritage Convention meeting (South Africa)

2008-2013 External examiner at the University of Bath Spa Heritage Management undergraduate degree

2004-ongoing Committee member British Rock Art Group (BRAG)

1999-2013 Member of Editorial Board: Public Archaeology

1998-ongoing Member of Editorial Board: Southern African Humanities (KwaZulu-Natal Museum)

1995-2005 Council member of the Pan African Association of Africanists

1994-1998 Chairperson of the Southern African Association of Archaeologists (now: Association of Southern African Professional Archaeologists)

Research

Research Interests

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, including the northern uKhahlamba-Drakensberg, 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

 

Teaching

Postgraduate Taught Teaching

I contributed widely across the Museums, Galleries and Heritage modules and led many modules.


Postgraduate Research Supervision

I am no longer taking welcome postgraduate students.

 

Postgraduate supervision since 2010

Completed PhDs

  • Arwa Badran: Archaeological Museums and Schools: Teaching Primary-Aged Children about the Past in Jordan
  • Liz Bell: Giving Up the Dead? The Impact and Effectiveness of the Human Tissue Act and the Guidance for the Care of Human Remains in Museums in English Museums
  • Carolyn Gibbeson: Haunted Hospitals: An Actor Network Theory approach examining the role of emotional attachment in the redevelopment of Victorian Asylums.
  • Michał Ryszard Koskowski: Management of Castles in Poland in the Early 21st Century
  • Ndukuyakhe Ndlovu: A comparative analysis of rock art in southern Africa: Animals and cosmological models
  • Tony McDonald: How effectively can World Heritage in young hands support delivery of the revised National Curriculum for secondary schools in England?
  • Tori Park: Read all about it? Newspaper coverage of the archaeological excavation, retention, and reburial of human remains within the UK
  • Niki Black: Community Cultural Festivals in Northumberland: How do these events contribute to the social sustainability of their host community?
  • Katharina Massing: From ‘Theme Park’ to ecomuseum: Could the use of ecomuseum principles in Hainan Province help to safeguard the intangible heritage of its ethnic minorities?
  • Dinc Sarac: Archaeological Heritage Management in Turkey: a case study on Antalya region (SW Turkey)
  • Emma Coffield: What cultures influence the understanding and practice of learning in emergent, artist-led contemporary art institutions?
  • Yong Zhao: Safeguarding Cultural Heritage through Sustainable Cultural Heritage Tourism: A Case Study in the Historic City of Xi’an, China
  • Brian Moss: Visitors' Experiences with Smartphone-based Interpretations in Outdoor Cultural Heritage Landscapes
  • Alix Ferrer-Yulfo: ICH museums and the safeguarding of traditional performing arts expressions: the Museo del Baile Flamenco and the Museu do Fado
  • David Selnick: Assessing the Sufficiency of the 1954 Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict and its Protocols to Address the Character of Modern Conflict.
  • Marta Alberti: Volunteering for Roman Britain: understanding motivations, expectations and impact of volunteer engagement in researching Romano British archaeological heritage


Completed MLitts

  • Jane Brantom: Aspiration and Reality: World Heritage and Sustainable Tourism at the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway World Heritage Site
  • David Brough: Consideration of factors influencing progress towards the operational establishment of Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage Site as a serial transnational property
  • Erin Watson: Portable art or re-used rock carving? A re-analysis of the concept of portability
  • Kate Riordan: Rock Art and Faunal Remains in the uKhahlamba-Drakensberg: A Reanalysis of Species Correlation on a Site-by-Site Basis

       


 


       


       


 


 


Publications

  • Articles

    • Will M, Sommer C, Möller G, Botha G, Blessing M, Msimanga L, Mazel A, Val A, Venditti F, Riedesel S. . Nature Communications 2026, 17, 2702.
    • Möller GHD, Mazel AD, Sommer C, Botha GA, Conard NJ, Riedesel S, Will M. . Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology 2025, 8(5).
    • Mazel A. . South African Archaeological Bulletin 2024, 79(221), 96-104.
    • Mazel AD. . Southern African Humanities. Beyond Boundaries: a Festschrift for Simon Hall 2023, 36, 33-60.
    • Mazel AD. . The Digging Stick 2023, 40(1), 19-22.
    • Mazel AD. . Quaternary International 2022, 611-612, 190-210.
    • Mazel AD. . Southern African Humanities 2019, 32, 163–192.
    • Mazel AD, Giesen MJ. . Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites 2019, 21(3), 160-183.
    • Willems A, Thomas S, Castillo Mena A, Ceginskas V, Immonen V, Kalakoski I, Lahdesmaki T, Lahdesmaki U, Gowen-Larsen M, Marciniak A, Perez Gonzalez E, White C, Mazel AD. . Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites 2018, 20(5-6), 297-318.
    • Turner M, Dowsland S, Mazel A, Giesen M. . Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development 2018, 8(4), 420-433.
    • Mazel AD. . Digging Stick 2018, 35(1), 1-5.
    • Mazel A, Giesen M. . International Newsletter on Rock Art 2018, 82, 22-25.
    • Mazel AD. Exhibiting a ‘nation’: the first displays of the South African Cultural History Museum during the time of Apartheid. Southern African Humanities 2018, 29. In Preparation.
    • Mazel A. . International Journal of Heritage Studies 2017, 23(5), 421-433.
    • Giesen MJ, Ung A, Warke PA, Christgen B, Mazel AD, Graham DW. . Journal of Cultural Heritage 2014, 15(1), 49-56.
    • Mazel A. . Time and Mind 2013, 6(1), 49-57.
    • Mazel AD, Galani A. . International Newsletter on Rock Art 2013, 66, 27-30.
    • Mazel AD. . Museum History Journal 2013, 6(2), 166-202.
    • Mazel A, Galani A. . Interpretation 2012, 17(2), 6-8.
    • Mazel A, Galani A, Maxwell D, Sharpe K. . World Archaeology 2012, 44(4), 592-611.
    • Mazel AD. . Time and Mind 2011, 4(3), 283-296.
    • Giesen MJ, Mazel AD, Graham DW, Warke PA. . International Journal of Heritage and Sustainable Development 2011, 1(1), 60-71.
    • Deacon J, Mazel A. . Adoranten 2010, 2010(1), 5 - 23.
    • Mazel AD. . Southern African Humanities 2009, 21, 85-115.
    • Jerardino A, Horwitz LK, Mazel AD, Navarro R. . South African Archaeological Bulletin 2009, 64(198), 75-86.
    • Mazel AD. . Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites 2008, 10(1), 41-51.
    • Cramer MD, Mazel AD. . South African Journal of Wildlife Research 2007, 37(2), 197-201.
    • Mazel AD. . International Newsletter on Rock Art 2005, 42, 24-27.
    • Hall S, Mazel AD. . Kronos: Journal of Cape History 2005, 31(1), 124-151.
    • Waddington C, Johnson B, Mazel AD. . Archaeologica Aeliana 2005, 5th Series(34), 29-54.
    • Mazel AD, Watchman AL. . Southern African Humanities 2003, 15(1), 59-73.
    • Mazel AD. iNkolimahashi Shelter: the excavation of Later Stone Age rock shelter deposits in the central Thukela Basin, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Natal Museum Journal of Humanities 1999, 11, 1-21.
    • Wahl EJ, Mazel AD, Roberts SE. Participation and Education: Developing a Cultural Resource Plan for the Natal Drakensberg Park, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Natal Museum Journal of Humanities 1998, 10, 151-170.
    • Mazel AD. Mzinyashana Shelters 1 and 2: excavation of mid and late Holocene deposits in the eastern Biggarsberg, Thukela Basin, South Africa. Natal Museum Journal of Humanities 1997, 9, 1-35.
    • Mazel AD, Watchman AL. Accelerator radiocarbon dating of Natal Drakensberg paintings: results and implications. Antiquity 1997, 71 (272), 445-449.
    • Mazel AD. Maqonqo Shelter: the excavation of Holocene deposits in the eastern Biggarsberg, Thukela Basin, South Africa. Natal Museum Journal of Humanities 1996, 8, 1-39.
    • Wahl EJ, Mazel AD. An annotated bibliography of popular archaeological writing in South Africa. Natal Museum Journal of Humanities 1995, 7, 51-85.
    • Mazel AD. Extending the distribution of bifacial tanged arrowheads into central Natal. South African Archaeological Bulletin 1994, 49, 53.
    • Mazel AD. Dating the Collingham Shelter rock paintings. Pictogram 1994, 6 (2), 33-35.
    • Mazel AD. Rock Art and Natal Drakensberg Hunter-Gatherer History: A reply to Dowson. Antiquity 1993, 67, 889-892.
    • Mazel AD. kwaThwaleyakhe Shelter: the excavation of mid and late Holocene deposits in the central Thukela Basin, Natal, South Africa. Natal Museum Journal of Humanities 1993, 5, 1-36. In Preparation.
    • Mazel AD. Gender and the hunter-gatherer archaeological record: a view from the Thukela Basin. South African Archaeological Bulletin 1992, 47, 122-126.
    • Mazel AD. Fear of running: a reply to Barham. South African Archaeological Bulletin 1992, 47, 132-134.
    • Mazel AD. Early pottery from the eastern part of southern Africa. South African Archaeological Bulletin 1992, 47, 3-7.
    • Whitelaw G, Prins F, Mazel AD, Maggs T. Comment on Schrire: the archaeological identity of hunters and herders at the Cape. South African Archaeological Bulletin 1992, 47, 131-132.
    • Mazel AD. Collingham Shelter: the excavation of late Holocene deposits, Natal, South Africa. Natal Museum Journal of Humanities 1992, 4, 1-52.
    • Wright JB, Mazel AD. 1991. Controlling the past in the museums of Natal and KwaZulu. Critical Arts 1991, 5 (3), 59-78.
    • Mazel AD. Mhlwazini Cave: the excavation of late Holocene deposits in the northern Natal Drakensberg, Natal, South Africa. Natal Museum Journal of Humanities 1990, 2, 95-133.
    • Mazel AD. People making history: the last ten thousand years of hunter-gatherer communities in the Thukela Basin. Natal Museum Journal of Humanities 1989, 1, 1-168.
    • Mazel AD. Changing social relations in the Thukela Basin 7000-2000 BP. South African Archaeological Society Goodwin Series 1989, 6, 33-41.
    • Mazel AD. Sikhanyisweni Shelter: report on excavations in the Thukela Basin, Natal, South Africa. Annals of the Natal Museum 1988, 29 (2), 379-406.
    • Mazel AD. Nkupe Shelter: report on excavations in the eastern Biggarsberg, Thukela Basin, Natal, South Africa. Annals of the Natal Museum 1988, 29 (2), 321-377.
    • Mazel AD, Stewart PM. Meddling with the mind: the treatment of the San hunter-gatherers and the origins of South Africa's Black population in South African school history textbooks since 1972. South African Archaeological Bulletin 1987, 42, 166-170.
    • Wright JB, Mazel AD. Bastions of ideology: the depiction of precolonial history in the museums of Natal and KwaZulu. South African Museums Association Bulletin (SAMAB) 1987, 17 (7&8), 301-310.
    • Mazel AD. Mgede Shelter: a mid and late Holocene observation in the western Biggarsberg, Thukela Basin, Natal, South Africa. Annals of the Natal Museum 1986, 27 (2), 357-387.
    • Mazel AD. Mbabane Shelter and eSinhlonhlweni Shelter: the last two thousand years of hunter-gatherer settlement in the central Thukela Basin, Natal, South Africa. Annals of the Natal Museum 1986, 27 (2), 389-453.
    • Manhire A, Parkington J, Mazel AD, Maggs T. Cattle, Sheep and Horses: a review of domestic animals in the rock art of southern Africa. South African Archaeological Society Goodwin Series 1986, 5, 22-30.
    • Mazel AD. Reply from A.D. Mazel (to Comments on Eland, Rhebuck and Cranes by A.R. Willcox). South African Archaeological Bulletin 1984, 39 (139), 71-72.
    • Mazel AD. Gehle Shelter: report on excavations in the uplands ecological zone, Tugela Basin, Natal, South Africa. Annals of the Natal Museum 1984, 26 (1), 1-24.
    • Mazel AD. Diamond 1 and Clarke's Shelter: report on excavations in the northern Drakensberg, Natal, South Africa. Annals of the Natal Museum 1984, 26 (1), 25-70.
    • Mazel AD. Archaeological survey of the Natal Drakensberg, Natal, South Africa. Journal of Field Archaeology 1984, 11, 345-356.
    • Mazel AD. Towards the conservation of the archaeological resources of the Natal Drakensberg. Lantern 1983, 32, 3-8.
    • Mazel AD. Eland, Rhebuck and Cranes: identifying seasonality in the paintings of the Drakensberg, Natal, South Africa. South African Archaeological Society Goodwin Series 1983, 4, 34-37.
    • Mazel AD. Principles for conserving the archaeological resources of the Natal Drakensberg. The South African Archaeological Bulletin 1982, 37, 7-15.
    • Mazel AD. Evidence for pre-Later Stone Age occupation of the Natal Drakensberg. Annals of the Natal Museum 1982, 25 (1), 61-65.
    • Mazel AD. Distribution of painting themes in the Natal Drakensberg. Annals of the Natal Museum 1982, 25(1), 67-82.
    • Mazel AD, Parkington JE. Stone tools and resources: a case study from southern Africa. World Archaeology 1981, 13 (1), 16-30.
    • Mazel AD, Moore P, Robey T. Excavation of a possible Quarry site in the Cape Point Nature Reserve, 1977. Simonstown Historical Society 1980, 11 (1), 21-25.
    • Mazel AD. Comment on Parkington, J. Time and place: some observations on spatial and temporal patterning in the Later Stone Age sequence in southern Africa. The South African Archaeological Bulletin 1980, 35, 100-102.
    • Mazel AD. Stow: the introduction of pastoralism in southern Africa. South African Archaeological Bulletin 1979, 34, 84.
    • Mazel AD, Parkington JE. Sandy Bay revisited: variability amongst Later Stone Age tools. South African Journal of Science 1978, 74, 81-82.

  • Authored Books

    • Wright J, Mazel A. . Johannesburg, South Africa: Wits University Press, 2012.
    • Wright JB, Mazel AD. . Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 2007.

  • Book Chapters

    • Mazel A. . In: di Lernia S, ed. Echoes of Africa’s Past. Archaeological explorations in the Anthropocene. An Anthology for 70 Years of the Libyan-Italian Mission in the Acacus and Messak (1955-2025). Sesto Fiorentino: All’Insegna del Giglio, 2025, pp.199-225.
    • Mazel AD, Giesen MJ, Turner M, Dowsland S. . In: Batarda Fernandes, António; Marshall, Melissa; Domingo, Inés, ed. Global Perspectives for the Conservation and Management of Open-Air Rock Art Sites. London and New York: Routledge, 2023, pp.141-160.
    • Mazel A. . In: Agnew N; Deacon J; Hall N; Little T; McClintock T; Robinson P; Sullivan S; Taçon P, ed. Networking for Rock Art: Global Challenges, Local Solutions. Los Angeles: The Getty Conservation Institute, 2022, pp.134-137.
    • Mazel AD. . In: Mazel, AD; Nash, GH, ed. Signalling and Performance: Ancient Rock Art in Britain and Ireland. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2022, pp.67-95.
    • Mazel AD, Nash GH. . In: Mazel, AD; Nash, GH, ed. Signalling and Performance: Ancient Rock Art in Britain and Ireland. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2022.
    • Mazel A, Giesen M. . In: Agnew, N., Deacon, J., Hall, N., Little, T., McClintock, T., Robinson, P., Sullivan, S. and Taçon, P, ed. Networking for Rock Art: Global Challenges, Local Solutions. Los Angeles: The Getty Conservation Institute, 2022, pp.89-92.
    • Mazel AD. . In: Frodsham, P; Sharpe, K, ed. Abstractions Based on Circles: Papers on Prehistoric Rock Art Presented to Stan Beckensall on his 90th Birthday. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2022, pp.156-166.
    • Charette C, Mazel A, Nash G. . In: Charette, C; Mazel, A; Nash, G, ed. Indigenous Heritage and Rock Art: Worldwide Research in Memory of Daniel Arsenault. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2021, pp.viii-xi.
    • Mazel AD. . In: Charette, C; Mazel, A; Nash, G, ed. Indigenous Heritage and Rock Art: Worldwide Research in Memory of Daniel Arsenault. Archaeopress, 2021.
    • Mazel AD. . In: Marschall S, ed. Memory, Migration and Travel. London: Routledge, 2018, pp.125-145.
    • Mazel AD. . In: Makuvza S, ed. Aspects of Management Planning for Cultural World Heritage Sites: Principles, Approaches and Practices. Cham: Springer, 2018, pp.131-146.
    • Nash G, Mazel A. . In: Nash,G; Mazel,A, ed. Narratives and Journeys in Rock Art: a Reader. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2018, pp.v-xiv.
    • Mazel A, Corsane G, Thomas R, James S. . In: Stefano ML; Davis P, ed. The Routledge Companion to Intangible Heritage. Routledge, 2017, pp.81-96.
    • Mazel AD. . In: Convery,I. Davis,P. and Corsane, G, ed. Displaced Heritage: Dealing With Disaster and Suffering. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2014, pp.151-161.
    • Giesen MJ, Mazel AD, Graham DW, Warke PA. . In: Darvill T; Batarda Fernandes AP, ed. Open-Air Rock-Art Conservation and Management: State of the Art and Future Perspectives. New York: Routledge, 2014, pp.38-52.
    • Galani A, Mazel A, Maxwell D, Sharpe K. . In: Ch'ng, E., Gaffney, V., Chapman, H, ed. Visual Heritage in the Digital Age. London: Springer, 2013, pp.183-204.
    • Mazel A. . In: McDonald, J., Veth, P, ed. A Companion to Rock Art. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012, pp.515-531.
    • Corsane G, Mazel A. . In: Stefano, M.L., Davis P., Corsane, G, ed. Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2012, pp.247-261.
    • Mazel AD, Ayestaran H. . In: Barnett, TF; Sharpe, KE, ed. Carving a Future for British Rock Art: New Directions for Research, Management and Presentation. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2010, pp.140-150.
    • Giesen MJ, Mazel AD, Graham DW, Warke PA. . In: Amoêda, R; Lira, S; Pinheiro, C, ed. Heritage 2010: Heritage and Sustainable Development. Barcelos: Green Lines Institute, 2010, pp.515-523.
    • Mazel AD. . In: Mitchell, P; Smith, B, ed. The Eland’s People: New Perspectives on the Rock Art of the Maloti/Drakensberg Bushmen. Essays in Memory of Pat Vinnicombe. Johannesburg, South Africa: Wits University Press, 2009, pp.66-67.
    • Mazel AD. . In: Mitchell, P;Smith, B, ed. The Eland’s People: New Perspectives on the Rock Art of the Maloti-Drakensberg Bushmen. Essays in Memory of Patricia Vinnicombe. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2009, pp.81-97.
    • Mazel AD. . In: Nash, G; Mazel, AD;Waddington, C, ed. Art as Metaphor: The Prehistoric Rock-Art of Britain. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2007, pp.231-257.
    • Mazel AD. . In: Deacon, J, ed. The Future of Africa's Past: African Rock Art in the 21st Century. Nairobi, Kenya: Trust for African Rock Art, 2007, pp.118-128.
    • Mazel AD. In pursuit of San precolonial history in the Natal Drakensberg: an historical review. In: Skotness,P, ed. MISCAST: Negotiating the presence of the Bushman. Cape Town: UCT Press, 1996, pp.191-196.
    • Mazel AD. A special place: Maqonqo Shelter in the Thukela Basin, South Africa. In: Pwiti,G;Soper,R, ed. Aspects of African Archaeology: Papers from the 10th Congress of the Pan African Association for Prehistory and Related Studies. Harare: University of Zimbabwe Publishers, 1996, pp.343-354.
    • Mazel AD, Ritchie G. Museums and their messages: the display of the pre- and early colonial past in the museums of South Africa, Botswana and Zimbabwe. In: Stone,PG;Molyneaux,BL, ed. The Presented Past: heritage, museums and education. London: Routledge, 1994, pp.225-236.
    • Mazel AD. The Stone Age peoples of Natal. In: Duminy,A;Guest,W, ed. Natal and Zululand from earliest times to 1910. Pietermaritzburg: University of Natal Press, 1989, pp.1-27.
    • Mazel AD. The archaeological past from the changing present: towards a critical assessment of South African Later Stone Age studies from the early 1960s to the early 1980s. In: Parkington,J;Hall,M, ed. Papers in the prehistory of the western Cape, South Africa. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, 1987, pp.504-529.
    • Mazel AD. Through the keyhole: a preliminary peep at the lithic composition of Later Stone Age sites in the central and upper Tugela Basin, Natal, South Africa. In: Hall,M;Avery,G; Avery,ML;Wilson,ML;Humphreys,AJB, ed. Frontiers: southern African archaeology today. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, International Series 207, 1984, pp.182-193.
    • Jobling J, Parkington J, Poggenpoel C, Mazel AD. Spatial patterning on a talus slope. In: Hall,M;Avery,G;Avery,ML;Wilson,ML;Humphreys,AJB, ed. Frontiers: southern African archaeology today. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports International Series 207, 1984, pp.152-166.

  • Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstracts)

    • Turner M, Dowsland S, Mazel A, Giesen M. . In: Digital Workflows for Heritage Conservation. 2017, Ottawa, Canada.
    • Mazel AD, Graham D, Warke P, Giesen M. . In: Sustaining the Impact of UK Science and Heritage Research: Contributions to the AHRC/EPSRC Science and Heritage Programme Conference. 2013, London: AHRC/EPSRC Science and Heritage Programme.
    • Galani A, Maxwell D, Mazel A, Sharpe K. . In: Museums and the Web. 2011, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA: Archives & Museum Informatics.
    • Mazel AD. . In: Rock art in the framework of the cultural Heritageof Humankind, XXII Valcamonica Symposium. 2007, Valcamonica, Italy: CCSP.
    • Mazel AD. . In: 11th Congress of the Pan African Association for Prehistory and Related Studies. 2004, Bamoko, Mali.
    • Mazel AD. Mazel, A.D. 1998. Hunter-gatherers in the Thukela Basin during the last 1500 years, with special reference to hunter-gatherer/agriculturist relations. In: The Proceedings of the KhoiSan Identities and Cultural Heritage Conference, held at the South African Museum, Cape Town, 12-16 July 1997. 1998, Cape Town: Institute for Historical Research and Infosource cc.

  • Edited Books

    • Mazel AD, Nash GH, ed. . Oxford: Archaeopress, 2022.
    • Charette C, Mazel A, Nash G, ed. . Oxford: Archaeopress, 2021.
    • Nash G, Mazel A, ed. . Oxford: Archaeopress, 2018.
    • Nash G, Mazel AD, Waddington C, ed. . Oxford: Archaeopress, 2007.

  • Editorials

    • Macdonald A, Mazel AD. . South African Archaeological Bulletin 2021, 76(215), 91-92.
    • Mazel AD. . South African Archaeological Bulletin 2014, 69(199), 1-3.
    • Mazel AD. . South African Archaeological Bulletin 1997, 52(166), 87-88.
    • Mazel AD. . South African Archaeological Bulletin 1991, 46, 59-60.

  • Exhibitions

    • Mazel A. . 2023. Pietermaritzburg: KwaZulu-Natal Museum, 33 photographs.
    • Mazel A. . 2021. Pietermaritzburg: KwaZulu-Natal Museum, 32 photographs.

  • Online Publications

    • Whitelaw G, Mazel AD. . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Available at: .
    • Galani A, Maxwell D, Mazel A, Sharpe K. . Â鶹´«Ã½ upon Tyne: International Centre for Cultural and Heritage Studies, 2011. Available at: .
    • Mazel AD (Project Manager). . University of Â鶹´«Ã½ upon Tyne, 2005. Available at: .