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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 …
Tags: Julia Bradbury, mossel bay, oyster catcher trail, Oystercatcher Trail, pinnacle point caves, St Blaize Trail
...read moreEarly modern humans use fire to engineer tools from stone
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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 …
Tags: curtis marean, fire, kyle brown, mossel bay archaeology project, pinnacle point caves, stone tools
...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 …
...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 …
...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 …
...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 …
...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 …
...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 …
...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 …
...read moreARCHAEOLOGY: Mossel 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 …
...read more
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