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.
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Our ancestors regularly used fire at Wonderwerk Cave, Northern Cape, 1 million years ago.
26 Aug 2023
Dr John C Vogel passed away peacefully on 30 January 2012 at the age of 79.
26 Aug 2023
Recent finds at Sibudu, KwaZulu-Natal, provide insights into the behaviour of early modern humans.
26 Aug 2023
The world’s earliest evidence of the use of containers and of a complicated ochre mixture, push back the date of the evolution of complex human cognition.
26 Aug 2023
Skeletons of a woman and a possibly related child have revealed a wealth of new information on the species Australopithecus sediba.
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
Why did humans leave Africa in the first place? Their migration could have been sparked by competition, climate change or simply a great hallmark of human nature, curiosity. Over the past 2 million years humans have proven to be a remarkably successful species.
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.