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A team of scientists theorize that a kite-shaped stone found on the coast of South Africa was intentionally shaped to resemble an endemic blue stingray species.
Archaeologists believe it could be the oldest animal sculpture in history
New research suggests that the risk of Europeans developing diseases such as multiple sclerosis and Alzheimer's stems from ancient human migrations.
Patterns of so-called modern human behavior are increasingly well documented in an abundance of Middle Stone Age archaeological sites across southern Africa. Contextualized archives directly preceding the southern African Middle Stone Age, however, remain scarce. Current understanding of the terminal Acheulean in southern Africa derives from a small number of localities that are predominantly in the central and northern interior. Many of these localities are surface and deflated contexts, others were excavated prior to the availability of modern field documentation techniques, and yet other re...
A new study suggests that the earliest shoes might have been worn 150,000 years ago, as indicated by fossilized imprints resembling shoe tracks.