Our research suggests these tombs were designed and constructed not simply to house the dead, but to affect the living.
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The Kurukop echo amplifies a mythological story from the Nama Karoo region.
We tend to think of archaeological sites as dead silent – empty ruins left by past cultures. But this isn’t how the people who lived in and used these sites would have experienced them.
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Registered Professional Archaeologist, PhD Candidate, University at Albany, State University of New York
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