Archaeologists in stunning discovery of 250,000-year-old human in remote African cave
Professor Lee Berger, the project's leader and Director of the Centre for Exploration of the Deep Human Journey at Wits ...
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Ancient DNA from South Africa rock shelter reveals the same human population stayed there for 9,000 years
Ancient DNA isn't well preserved when average temperatures are high. So far, fewer than two dozen genomes from South Africa, Botswana and Zambia have been published. But Africa is interesting as ...
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140M-Year-Old Dinosaur Tracks Found for the First Time in South Africa’s Western Cape
Scientists have discovered South Africa’s youngest known dinosaur tracks along the remote coastline of the Western Cape. The newly identified footprints, estimated to be around 140 million years old, ...
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Ancient stone walls and power: what data science tools can reveal in African archaeology
In both ancient and modern contexts ... a study of 19th century settlements in the Magaliesberg region in South Africa, using GIS tools to analyse what the visibility of the sites was telling ...
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North Africa: Ancient DNA Reveals Maghreb Communities Preserved Their Culture and Genes, Even in a Time of Human Migration
As an Africanist archaeologist, I specialise in the study of ancient societies across Mediterranean Africa and the Sahara. My focus is on how humans adapted to their environments and the rise of ...