Excavation Team

Puseletso Lecheko

Puseletso is a registered rock-art tour guide with the Mehloding Community Tourism Trust, based in Matatiele. He has been involved in the MARA project since its inception, trained in survey and rock-art site recording. He was part of the crew for the excavations at Mafusing and Gladstone Shelters.

Rethabile Mokhchane

Rethabile has been involved in the MARA project over the course of multiple excavations at Gladstone and Mafusing Shelter. He has also worked on several arhaeological projects in Lesotho since 2008, including the highland sites of Moshebi's Shelter and Sehonghong (with Drs. Brian Stewart and Genevieve Dewar on their AMEMSA project) and with the Metolong Cultural Resource Management Project, a dam mitigation programme.

Joseph Ralimpe

Joseph began working for the MARA programme in 2011, excavating at Mafusing shelter, and then Gladstone Shelter in 2012. From 2009, he has worked on the Metolong Cultural Resource Management project, and since 2012 has been employed as a senior archaeological assistant on the same programme, working as the primary excavator at Ha Makotoko shelter.