2 million year old teeth reveal a diet of bark, leaves, sedges, grasses, fruits…[image above is a palm phytolith from dental calculus].
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South African scientists share our country’s latest fossil discovery with the world using live virtual technology.
26 Aug 2023
By: Janette Deacon, 04 January 2016
SOUTH AFRICAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY
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26 Aug 2023
During a routine check on 2 January 2016, Professor Chris Henshilwood and Dr Karen Van Niekerk discovered that a vandal or vandals had broken through the protective panels at the entrance to Blombos Cave and had then climbed into the cave through the opening.
26 Aug 2023
Three tiny ear bones, the rarest fossils, from two hominids at Swartkrans in the Cradle of Humankind, provide clues about evolution.
26 Aug 2023
Members who attended the Western Cape Branch One-day lecture series on Climate Change on 28 August 2016 were interested in reading further on some of the issues, particularly the Milankovitch Cycles that summarise the periodic changes in the position of the Earth in relation to the Sun which affect the build-up or melting of polar ice caps.
26 Aug 2023
This study suggests that Homo naledi lived more recently than first thought but the dating method is unusual.
26 Aug 2023
Findings in South Africa show that innovation among early humans was not primarily driven by climate change. Up until now climate change has frequently been considered a primary driver of innovation in the Stone Age in South Africa.
26 Aug 2023
The theory of Female Cosmetic Coalitions (FCC) is a new and controversial attempt to explain the evolutionary emergence of art, ritual and symbolic culture in Homo sapiens.
26 Aug 2023
Follow an intrepid team of spelunking archaeologists in a high-tech expedition deep under the Cradle of Humankind.