The ancient Kush city of Jebel Barkal rose up in the Nile River Valley starting around 2000 BCE. New research dug deep to learn more about what this landscape was like over the past 4,000 years.
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More fossil tracks of vertebrates have come to light on the South African coast, adding to the picture of an ancient plain full of wildlife.
No fossilised pangolin tracks had been recorded anywhere in the world until a track was found in South Africa, dated to between 90,000 and 140,000 years ago.
Ammoglyphs – ancient ‘sand art’ – are a relatively new find.
The Su-re site has provided a historical connection between local Tibetans in the highlands with Nepali Sherpas in the Himalayan lowlands.
We now know that Bokoni Phase I was built as early as the 15th century – before the arrival of European colonisation or trade.
A fresh look at museum artifacts fills in a gap in the Asian archaeological record and refutes the idea that an advanced technique was imported from the West by early modern humans.
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Research Associate, African Centre for Coastal Palaeoscience, Nelson Mandela University
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Postgraduate Student in Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Wollongong
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Professor of Archaeology, University of Washington
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Associate professor, School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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DPhil student in Archaeological Science, University of Oxford
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Senior Lecturer, School of Geography, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Faculty of Science, The University of Melbourne
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Research Fellow, School of Earth, Atmospheric and Life Sciences (SEALS), University of Wollongong
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Senior Lecturer, University of Leicester
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Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography and Geochronology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Clive Thompson is a Friend of The Conversation.
Research Associate, African Centre for Coastal Palaeoscience, Nelon Mandela University; Research Associate, Research Associate, Centre for Transformative Regulation of Work, University of the Western Cape
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Honorary researcher, Evolutionary Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor, Environmental Futures Research Centre, School of Science, University of Wollongong
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Research Scientist in Archaeology, University of Michigan