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South Africa

Issue 105/News/South Africa

Paranthropus robustus

The discovery of a two-million-year-old skull in South Africa is shedding important new light on microevolution in an early hominin species, as…

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Issue 59/South Africa

Meet the mosaic ancestors

Australopithecus sediba had a mixture of primitive and modern anatomical features, and a unique way of walking, newly published research says. The…

Issue 54/South Africa

Hard to swallow

While most of our early ancestors preferred to eat soft foods such as grass and sedge, Australopithecus sediba enjoyed more roughage, including…

Issue 53/South Africa

South Africa: Burning evidence

Humans used fire a million years ago – more than 300,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to a team led by…

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Issue 50/South Africa

Blombos Cave: 100,000 year old paint in a shell

The discovery of two art toolkits, dating to 100,000 years ago, in a south African cave, show early humans were capable of…

Issue 48/South Africa

Stay at home males and roaming females

The results of a major study of early hominid teeth suggest that our male ancestors tended to stick around close to where…

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Issue 42/South Africa

Ochre production site discovered in South Africa

Among the oldest known examples of symbolic behaviour amongst humans and our close hominid relations is the use of ochre in burial…

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Issue 15/South Africa

Hominid, World’s Oldest was Brained by Bird

Researchers reveal Taung Child was killed by an eagle…

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Issue 5/Features/South Africa

South African Rock Art

Jeffrey May tries to understand the rock art of South Africa…

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Issue 5/South Africa

Shell Beads from Blombos Cave, South Africa

Oldest known beads found in Africa show modern human behaviour…


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