Key ages of early H. sapiens, Neanderthals and Denisovans (image credit: Delson, 2019; Fig. 1)
Opportunities for anatomically modern humans to have left Africa
How El Niño (Pacific Ocean) affected the ecology of Lake Victoria, East Africa
Lake Victoria is the source of the Nile and is the largest tropical lake in the world.
Nok Pottery Fragments Reveal Ancient Honey Collecting
“the discovery of the chemical components of beeswax in the pottery of the Nok people provides a unique window on this relationship, when all other sources of evidence are lacking.”” Prof Richard Evershed
Returning Looted Art: The Benin Bronze
The University of Aberdeen is to return a Benin bronze – a sculpture looted by British soldiers in Nigeria in one of the most notorious examples of the pillaging of cultural treasures associated with 19th century European colonial expansion.
West Africa “a real frontier for human evolutionary studies”
Groups of hunter-gatherers in what is today Senegal continued to use Middle Stone Age technologies associated with our species’ earliest prehistory as late as 11 thousand years ago.
16thC Shipwreck Reveals New Information on African Elephants
In 1533, a Portuguese trading vessel carrying forty tons of gold and silver coins along with other precious cargo went missing on its way to India.
Did early humans learn to cook in Olduvai Gorge?
“How did what seems to be a ‘golden spike’ in human culture first take material form in Olduvai?”
The Harray men who went for gold
“In the late summer of 1835, 19-year old Joseph Clouston, who had been born in Stromness but was then living at Nisthouse in Harray, arrived at the coastal town of Anamaboe.”
Building Research Capacity in Sub-Saharan Africa
The project will focus on Ethiopia, Somalia, and South Sudan, all of which are among the least developed countries in the world.
We need to worry about Africa…..
“I hope that in the understandable and necessary preoccupation with what is immediately affecting us we do not forget others. “
