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Archaeology African

@ArchAfrican

Interested in African Archaeology and all things paleo in Africa

 South Africa
Joined June 2017
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27 Jan 2021, is the final day that tweets will be posted to this account, initiated around 5 years ago with the intention of raising awareness of African archaeology and palaeontology and related topics. I hope it has served some purpose. Thanks to all the followers.
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WWF South Africa@WWFSouthAfrica20 Feb 2021
How should you behave around marine mammals? Here’s a handy guide for recreational seagoers: wwf.org.za/our_news/news/?33… #ForNatureForYou #MarineLife #Oceans #OceanLife
New guide on legal and ethical behaviour around marine wildlife

New guide on legal and ethical behaviour around marine wildlife

Study offers legal and ethical guidance for operators of recreational vessels.

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Blade production ∼500 thousand years ago at Kathu Pan 1, South Africa: support for a multiple origins hypothesis for early Middle Pleistocene blade technologies academia.edu/1510048/Blade_p… via @academia
Blade production ∼500 thousand years ago at Kathu Pan 1, South Africa: support for a multiple...

Blade production ∼500 thousand years ago at Kathu Pan 1, South Africa: support for a multiple...

The ∼500 thousand year old stratum 4a lithic assemblage from Kathu Pan 1, Northern Cape, South Africa, is one of the earliest occurrences of blade technology and is the oldest dated assemblage...

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‘No one remains living in the past’: the dynamics of pottery technological styles in southwestern Ethiopia tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1…
‘No one remains living in the past’: the dynamics of pottery technological styles in southwestern...

‘No one remains living in the past’: the dynamics of pottery technological styles in southwestern...

This article examines the pottery technological styles of the Oromo, the Yem and the Dawro ethnolinguistic groups in southwestern Ethiopia. It provides a comparative examination of the technologica...

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Dwelling after Makuria: the organisation and function of space in houses of the Funj period in Old Dongola, Nubia tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1…
Dwelling after Makuria: the organisation and function of space in houses of the Funj period in Old...

Dwelling after Makuria: the organisation and function of space in houses of the Funj period in Old...

Old Dongola, the capital of the Makurian kingdom of medieval Nubia, remained a significant town after the collapse of Makuria throughout most of the Funj period between the sixteenth and nineteenth...

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Lemos, R. David Edwards (Ed.): The Archaeological Survey of Sudanese Nubia, 1963–69: The Pharaonic Sites. Afr Archaeol Rev (2021). doi.org/10.1007/s10437-020-0…
Douze, K. John J. Shea: Prehistoric Stone Tools of Eastern Africa: A Guide. Afr Archaeol Rev (2021). doi.org/10.1007/s10437-020-0…
Pleistocene golden mole and sand-swimming trace fossils from the Cape coast of South Africa cup.org/3pouxb7
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Climate, Environment and Early Human Innovation: Stable Isotope and Faunal Proxy Evidence from Archaeological Sites (98-59ka) in the Southern Cape, South Africa academia.edu/26784171/Climat… via @academia
Climate, Environment and Early Human Innovation: Stable Isotope and Faunal Proxy Evidence from...

Climate, Environment and Early Human Innovation: Stable Isotope and Faunal Proxy Evidence from...

The Middle Stone Age (MSA) of southern Africa, and in particular its Still Bay and Howie-sons Poort lithic traditions, represents a period of dramatic subsistence, cultural, and technological...

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Field and Technical Report A FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT OF THE NOTCHED BONE ARTEFACTS FROM KLASIES RIVER MAIN SITE academia.edu/44939360/Field_… via @academia

Field and Technical Report A FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT OF THE NOTCHED BONE ARTEFACTS FROM KLASIES RIVER...

The recent publication of previously unrecognised musical instruments from two South African Later Stone Age deposits has prompted us to relook at some of the bone tools from Klasies River Main site...

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PhD abstract. Variability among Later Stone Age hunter-gatherers in eastern Africa tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1…

Variability among Later Stone Age hunter-gatherers in eastern Africa

Published in Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa (Vol. 56, No. 1, 2021)

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The expansion of the Acheulian to the Southeastern Ethiopian Highlands: Insights from the new early Pleistocene site-complex of Melka Wakena sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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A new burnetiid from the middle Permian of Zambia and a reanalysis of burnetiamorph relationships onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
Authority Beyond State and Tribe in the Early Medieval Maghrib: The Impact of Climate on the Economic, Social and Political Reorganisation of the Maghrib al-Aqṣā in the Eighth–Ninth Centuries: The Case of Sijilmāsa (Morocco) tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1…

Authority Beyond State and Tribe in the Early Medieval Maghrib: The Impact of Climate on the...

The rise of Islam in the Maghrib al-Aqṣā in the eighth and ninth centuries and the simultaneous onset of deep and lasting political, economic, cultural and social upheavals across the region have l...

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Deep-sea trace fossils and depositional model from the lower Miocene Tiaret Marl Formation (northwestern Algeria) sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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[PDF] Clay Mineralogy And Geochemistry Of Pleistocene Sediments From Paleolake Olduvai, Tanzania scholarworks.gsu.edu/cgi/vie…
Hunter-gatherers on the basin’s edge: a preliminary look at Holocene human occupation of Nangara-Komba Shelter, Central African Republic tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1…
Hunter-gatherers on the basin’s edge: a preliminary look at Holocene human occupation of Nangara-...

Hunter-gatherers on the basin’s edge: a preliminary look at Holocene human occupation of Nangara-...

Limited excavations at Nangara-Komba Shelter along the northern margin of the Congo Basin have recovered evidence for intermittent and at times intensive human visits beginning approximately 5100 c...

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Xenodens calminechari gen. et sp. nov., a bizarre mosasaurid (Mosasauridae, Squamata) with shark-like cutting teeth from the upper Maastrichtian of Morocco, North Africa sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Andrea Zerboni@andzerb23 Sep 2020
Six African heritage sites under threat from climate change bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-…
Six African heritage sites under threat from climate change

Six African heritage sites under threat from climate change

A recent study warns that without intervention many of the continent's ancient sites could be lost.

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Andrea Zerboni@andzerb19 Jan 2021
🚨New open access paper and geomorphological map!!!! @journalofmaps Geomorphology and (palaeo-)hydrography of the Southern Atbai plain and western Eritrean Highlands (Eastern Sudan/Western Eritrea) tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
Geomorphology and (palaeo-)hydrography of the Southern Atbai plain and western Eritrean Highlands...

Geomorphology and (palaeo-)hydrography of the Southern Atbai plain and western Eritrean Highlands...

We present the geomorphology of the Southern Atbai Plain (Eastern Sudan) and the western edge of the Eritrean Highlands (Western Eritrea), in the eastern Sahel. The mountainous area consists of Pal...

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