Researchers have identified what they say are the oldest-known musical instruments in the world.
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Humans living in South Africa in the Middle Stone Age used advanced heating techniques to vastly improve their living conditions during the era.
26 Aug 2023
Recent finds at Sibudu, KwaZulu-Natal, provide insights into the behaviour of early modern humans.
26 Aug 2023
The world’s earliest evidence of the use of containers and of a complicated ochre mixture, push back the date of the evolution of complex human cognition.
26 Aug 2023
Skeletons of a woman and a possibly related child have revealed a wealth of new information on the species Australopithecus sediba.
26 Aug 2023
By: Janette Deacon, 04 January 2016
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26 Aug 2023
During a routine check on 2 January 2016, Professor Chris Henshilwood and Dr Karen Van Niekerk discovered that a vandal or vandals had broken through the protective panels at the entrance to Blombos Cave and had then climbed into the cave through the opening.
26 Aug 2023
Why did humans leave Africa in the first place? Their migration could have been sparked by competition, climate change or simply a great hallmark of human nature, curiosity. Over the past 2 million years humans have proven to be a remarkably successful species.
26 Aug 2023
This study suggests that Homo naledi lived more recently than first thought but the dating method is unusual.
26 Aug 2023
Findings in South Africa show that innovation among early humans was not primarily driven by climate change. Up until now climate change has frequently been considered a primary driver of innovation in the Stone Age in South Africa.