Africa’s ‘new consumer class’ isn’t new; in the 1800s the continent called the tune for European factories.
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At 88 the artist Esther Mahlangu is world famous and is the subject of a major retrospective exhibition.
Mineralogical analysis of 5,000-year-old stone beads from Turkana, Kenya suggest a novel mortuary tradition by early pastoralists.
By bridging culture and computation, heritage algorithms challenge the myth of ‘primitive cultures’ and forge a new understanding of science and art.
Rosaries are meant to be used wherever, whenever – and each one tells a story.
Africa has always contributed to global technological breakthroughs and economic systems.
Modern dating techniques are providing new time frames for indigenous settlements in Northeast North America, free from the Eurocentric bias that previously led to incorrect assumptions.
Archaeologists have uncovered a 2,000-year-old amber bead scam. But humans have been making fake jewels and icons for much longer than that.
Why is jewellery so important to the story of human evolution? Because it provides a public message – even to people we don’t know.
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Associate Professor of Archaeology, Griffith University
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University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor, Stamps School of Art & Design, University of Michigan
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Univertsity Assistant (Postdoc), Universität Wien; University of the Free State
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Research Fellow, History Department, Universität Trier
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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Professor of Information, University of Michigan
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Research Assistant Professor, Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies, University of Arkansas
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Director of the Cornell Tree Ring Laboratory and Professor of Classical Archaeology, Cornell University
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Director of the Marian Library and Professor, University of Dayton
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Smuts Research Fellow in African Studies, University of Cambridge
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Lecturer of Political Science, University of Mpumalanga