Fossils may look to the untrained eye like an unremarkable set of sandy bones. But those bones can deepen or even rewrite our understanding of ancient history – and South Africa is a fossil treasure ...

Aerial views of Namaqualand heuweltjies covered by spring flowers. The flowers grow preferentially on the mounds because they are richer in nutrients than the surrounding soil. These termite mounds, ...

Oakhurst rock shelter is an archaeological site near the town of George on the southern coast of South Africa. It is set into a sandstone cliff above a stream in a valley forested by towering old ...

In a cave overlooking the ocean on the southern coast of South Africa, archaeologists discovered thousands of stone tools, created by ancient humans roughly 20,000 years ago. By examining tiny details ...

Victoria Gibbon receives funding from the South African National Research Foundation. Stephan Schiffels receives funding from the European Research Council (ERC). Joscha Gretzinger does not work for, ...

New evidence for the presence of ancient lakes in some of the most arid regions of South Africa suggests that Stone Age humans may have been more widespread across the continent than previously ...

Research Associate, African Centre for Coastal Palaeoscience, Nelson Mandela University When and where did our ancestors first fashion footwear? We cannot look to physical evidence of shoes for the ...

Possible shod hominin tracks in the Garden Route National Park, South Africa. Credit: Charles Helm When and where did our ancestors first fashion footwear? We cannot look to physical evidence of shoes ...