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At the U of A's Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies, Wolfgang Alders, a National Science Foundation SBE Postdoctoral Fellow, is using satellite imagery and archaeological methods to better understand the origins of urban life on the eastern African Swahili Coast, a vast region spanning the modern countries of Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania and Mozambique.
Our world is riddled with fascinating, perilous, but beautiful holes into the quiet depths of the crust.
The study found striking parallels between how Neanderthals and modern humans used the space within the places they lived.
New evidence of one of the first cities in the Pacific shows they were established much earlier than previously thought.
Traditionally, experts assumed that Neanderthal behavior was less complex than that of our own species.