How we dated the remnants of the Bokoni polity
If you go for a walk in the green hills of Mpumalanga in the north east of South Africa, you …
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Teeth prove foreigners fought alongside ancient Greeks
Ancient historians loved to write about warfare and famous battles. While these millennia-old stories still feed modern imaginations – Homer’s …
How we discovered the oldest human burial in Africa
How did human uniqueness first evolve among our ancestors, setting us apart from other animals? That is a question many …
South Africa’s Blombos cave is home to the earliest drawing by a human
Scientists working in Blombos Cave in South Africa’s southern Cape region have made a discovery that changes our understanding of …
Ancient Greece, handwashing and inequality
COVID-19 poses massive challenges nationally and globally when it comes to socio-economic inequality. It has hit the vaccine rollout especially …
Archaeology explains persistence of Muslim cuisine after conquest of Granada
Granada, in southern Spain’s Andalusia region, was the final remnant of Islamic Iberia known as al-Andalus – a territory that …
Discovery of ‘the Dazzling Aten’ will offer vital clues about life in Ancient Egypt
An almost 3,400-year-old industrial, royal metropolis, “the Dazzling Aten”, has been found on the west bank of the Nile near …
Archaeology in Africa changes our knowledge of evolution
Our species, Homo sapiens, rose in Africa some 300,000 years ago. The objects that early humans made and …
Archaeology is changing, slowly. But it’s still too tied up in colonial practices
For many people, the mention of archaeology makes them think of Indiana Jones. He’s the hero of the 1980s …
