The systematic exploitation of marine foods by terrestrial mammals lacking aquatic
morphologies is rare. Widespread ethnographic and archaeological evidence from many …

Points and point fragments from Middle Stone Age layers (dated to between 50,000 and
60,000 years ago) from Sibudu Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, were examined to …

Modern genetic data combined with appropriate statistical methods have the potential to
contribute substantially to our understanding of human history. We have developed an …

South Africa and Lesotho (SAL) have been inhabited by tool-producing hominins for at least
two million years. Most of the information we have about the activities and technological …

Powerful categories of evidence for symbolically mediated behaviour, variously described
as 'modern'or 'cognitively modern'human behaviour, are geometric or iconographic …

Africa is inferred to be the continent of origin for all modern human populations, but the
details of human prehistory and evolution in Africa remain largely obscure owing to the …

The Nature of Heritage: The New South Africa is unique in revealing the conflicts inherent in
preserving both natural and cultural heritage, by examining the archaeological …

Africa's Middle Stone Age (MSA) may have lasted almost half a million years, but its earliest
expression is not yet well understood. The MSA is best known for innovations that appear in …

This text provides a brief yet comprehensive overview of a number of non-Western
approaches to educational thought and practice. Its premise is that understanding the ways …

The later Pleistocene archaeological record of southernmost Africa encompasses several
Middle Stone Age industries and the transition to the Later Stone Age. Through this period …