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The Cape St. Blaize Cave, directly below the St. Blaize Lighthouse
The Cape St. Blaize Cave is an important archaeological site, and a popular point for whale and dolphin watching. It is situated in the cliffs below the Cape St Blaize Lighthouse.
The Cave is significant for a number of reasons: George Leith excavated it in 1888 (making it one of South Africa’s earliest archaeological excavations), as did T. Rupert Jones (1899), and A.J.H (John) Goodwin (in the 1920s). …
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...read moreTop BBC Presenter Films Mossel Bay Hikes
Media Release: Immediate. 10 September 2009. Mossel Bay Tourism
Top BBC Presenter Films Mossel Bay Hikes
Top BBC presenter Julia Bradbury visited Mossel Bay this week with a crew from the British television production company Skyworks to film a documentary on the town’s Cape St Blaize and Oyster Catcher Hiking Trails.
“We’re doing a four-part series on walking in South Africa for BBC Four – which is known as the ‘thinking channel’ because of the serious nature of its material, which is not afraid to tackle complexity,” said executive producer Eric Harwood.
“In our programmes, we try to find out more than just where …
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...read moreEarly modern humans use fire to engineer tools from stone
This Press Release supplied by ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
Early modern humans use fire to engineer tools from stone
Discovery places complex cognition at 72,000 years ago, and perhaps far earlier
Watch an interview with Lead Author Kyle Brown
TEMPE, Ariz. – Evidence that early modern humans living on the coast of the far southern tip of Africa 72,000 years ago employed pyrotechnology – the controlled use of fire – to increase the quality and efficiency of their stone tool manufacturing process, is being reported in the Aug. 14 issue of the journal Science. An international team of researchers, including three from the Institute of …
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...read moreNobel Lecture on Why Modern Human History Began In Mossel Bay to be repeated in town
Professor Curtis Marean, the leader of the Mossel Bay Archaeology Project (MAP – the largest archaeological project of its kind in the world today) will deliver a repeat of his Nobel Lecture ‘The African Evidence for the Origins of Modern Human Behavior’ at the Dias Museum Complex on Wednesday, November 19th at 6:00 p.m.Prof Marean, who is Professor of Anthropology at the Institute of Human Origins at the Arizona State University, is in South Africa to direct the current digging season in the Pinnacle Point Caves where his team have found the earliest evidence for modern human behaviour.
His thesis is …
...read moreCurtis Marean delivers Nobel Lecture: Who Were The First Humans
America’s Arizona State University Professor Curtis Marean has told this year’s Nobel Conference that modern human behaviour began in the Mossel Bay area of South Africa’s present-day Western Cape Province.This 44th Conference in the Nobel lecture series – which is held every year at the Gustavus Adolphus College (a private liberal arts college in St. Peter, Minnesota) – was titled ‘Who Were The First Humans’ and was designed to trace the evolution of human history from its beginnings in Africa to the modern day.
The scientists who addressed the conference demonstrated how they used genetic studies as well as examinations of …
...read moreMossel Bay Archaeology Project Leader to Deliver Nobel Conference’s Opening Lecture
The study of man’s origins fascinates us all – and recent discoveries in the caves at Pinnacle Point (on the coast 10 km west of Mossel Bay) have delivered the earliest evidence for modern human behaviour: evidence that stretches back as much as 165,000 years.
These enormously significant findings are a result of the Mossel Bay Archaeology Project through which nearly fifty scientists from around the world are studying data collected from the caves under the leadership of Professor of Paleoanthropology Curtis Marean of the Institute of Human Origins at the Arizona State University’s School of Human Evolution and Social Change …
...read moreWildlife Sanctuary and Mossel Bay Archaeology Project Develop Unique Partnership
A unique and unusual partnership has developed between Mossel Bay’s Jukani Wildlife Sanctuary – a privately-owned conservation and tourism organisation – and the biggest scientific project of its kind in the world: the Mossel Bay Archaeology Project (MAP).Jukani has made its hyenas available to MAP archaeological assistant Tina du Plessis, who has begun a study of their dental impressions.
“We feed them calf bones, the same bones every time (the scapula, the humerus and the radius – the whole front leg) so that we can learn how the bite pattern changes from juvenile to adult hyenas,” she said.
“The bones have a …
...read moreMossel Bay Museum Brings Archaeology Alive For Students
The Mossel Bay Archaeology Project – the biggest project of its kind in the world today – is changing the way we think about both the origins of man and the effects of global climate change.But it’s also changing the way our children view their heritage.
Barry Jooste is the education officer at Mossel Bay’s Dias Museum Complex responsible for bringing the experience of archaeology alive for hundreds of pupils from local schools. He does this through the SACP4 Education Project (South African Coastal Palaeoanthropology, Palaeoclimates, Palaeoenvironments and Palaeoecology Project) which was set up about three years ago to enable learners …
...read moreMossel Bay Archaeology Project Develops Local Talent
Five members of Mossel Bay’s community have found training – and new careers – through the Mossel Bay Archaeology Project.The Project – under the leadership of Curtis Marean, Professor of Paleoanthropology at the Institute of Human Origins at the Arizona State University’s School of Human Evolution and Social Change and South Africa’s Dr. Peter Nilssen – is the largest of its kind in the world and seeks to understand both the behaviour of early humans and the effects of climate change on vegetation and water supply through evidence found in the Pinnacle Point Caves.
In total, nearly fifty scientists are involved …
...read moreWildlife Sanctuary and Mossel Bay Archaeology Project Develop Unique Partnership
A unique and unusual partnership has developed between Mossel Bay’s Jukani Wildlife Sanctuary – a privately-owned conservation and tourism organisation – and the biggest scientific project of its kind in the world: the Mossel Bay Archaeology Project (MAP).Jukani has made its hyenas available to MAP archaeological assistant Tina du Plessis, who has begun a study of their dental impressions.
“We feed them calf bones, the same bones every time (the scapula, the humerus and the radius – the whole front leg) so that we can learn how the bite pattern changes from juvenile to adult hyenas,” she said.
“The bones have a …
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