In the following year, on 5 June 1945, it was agreed to establish the South African Archaeological Society, with membership open to interested persons from neighbouring countries in southern Africa.
Typically branch activity includes the presentation of lectures and excursions that promote awareness of southern Africa’s past as revealed by archaeology.
Archaeologists, and scholars from cognate disciplines, actively engaged in research in the subcontinent regularly contribute to these programmes.
The society makes funds available for research, while a major objective from the outset was to publish the findings of Southern African archaeology.
In December 1945 the first issue of the South African Archaeological Bulletin (SAAB) was published, a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal.