Runaway slaves joined indigenous Khoe-San people and raided colonial farms. The rock art they left in their hideouts tells a fascinating story.
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A new book by an eminent anthropologist and archaeologist mounts a rigorous critique of Dark Emu, repudiating notions of ‘primitive’ hunter-gatherers.
Anthropologists believed that before the implementation of agriculture, men hunted and women gathered, but new evidence suggests that this might not have been the case.
By studying the DNA of people who lived in East Asia thousands of years ago, scientists are starting to untangle how the region was populated.
Mason tirelessly sought to convince officials of the need to recognise and celebrate the African past, and the role that African people played in the making of modern South African society.
A survey of San ostrich eggshell beads - a common find at archaeological sites - paints a bigger picture of hunter-gatherers, herders and shifting cultural tradition.
Play and learning are one and the same for Mbendjele children.
Contrary to the colonial view, Bushmen of southern Africa had a complex and meaningful practice of dress.
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Honorary Senior Lecturer, Australian National University
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Curator at the Origins Centre Museum, University of the Witwatersrand
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Banting Postdoctoral Fellow and Adjunct Professor, University of Alberta
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Research Fellow in Archaeology, University of Oslo
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British Academy Research Fellow and Lecturer in Evolutionary Anthropology/Medicine, UCL
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
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Assistant Professor of Biology, University of Richmond
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Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Calgary
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Senior Researcher, University of the Witwatersrand
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