Around the World July/August 2021
SOUTH AFRICA
(Michael Chazan)
Around the World November/December 2020
SOUTH AFRICA
(Photo by Marlize Lombard (with permission from the KwaZulu-Natal Museum)
Digs & Discoveries July/August 2012
We Didn’t Start the Fire… Homo erectus Did
Features January/February 2012
Open Source Australopithecus – Malapa, South Africa
Digs & Discoveries January/February 2012
Stone Age Art Supplies
A cave in southwestern South Africa was used as a paint production workshop, where ancient artists made a liquid ochre pigment. The toolkit of shells, stone, and bone from Blombos Cave suggests Middle Stone Age humans were capable planners.
Around the World July 1, 2011
SOUTH AFRICA
Last year witnessed the announcement of a new member of the human family, Australopithecus sediba, who lived in South Africa nearly two million years ago.
