Frans Edward Prins

Archaeologist and heritage consultant. Owner of company called Active Heritage.
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• New dna test results hereby included 26/08/2019

R-BY176666 is a subgroup of R-M269 on 02/20/2019

Parent haplogroup: R-M269
Age: 25,000
Region: Western Europe; low frequencies in Turkey, and the Northern Fertile Crescent.
- thanks Wilma Basson.

It is with great sadness that I am posting this shocking and totally unexpected news :
RIP dear Frans .
You will be missed!
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- November 28, 2021

Frans Prins (1965-2021)

https://www.nmsa.org.za/news/8-featured/365-frans-prins-1965-2021.htm'''

The KwaZulu-Natal Museum notes the passing of Frans Prins, a former Head of Anthropology. Frans graduated from the University of Stellenbosch with a Master’s Degree on the Iron Age of the Transkei in 1992.

He joined the staff of the KwaZulu-Natal Museum in 1991. Prins’ intellectual interests spanned archaeology, rock art, anthropology and history. He published research on the interaction between Khoisan and Nguni-speaking communities in the Drakensberg and was one of the key scholars in the debates around Manqindi Dyantyi, or ‘M’, as she was known in the literature.

Of note is his work on the interchange of ideas around divination and rainmaking between various communities as well as his work on ‘Late White’ rock art. After leaving the museum, Frans worked on the Maloti-Drakensberg Transfrontier Conservation and Development Area between 2004 and 2008. Between 2008 and 2009 he worked as a Heritage Assessor at Strategic Environmental Focus before establishing his own organization, Active Heritage, which offered various heritage-related services.

Frans passed away on 11 August, 2021, after battling an aggressive cancer.

The museum extends condolences to his family. A Committal Service will be held at 3PM on Saturday 21 August.

- Thanks Wilma Basson