Media Release: Immediate. 10 September 2009. Mossel Bay Tourism Top BBC Presenter Films Mossel Bay Hikes [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QuBgS_8C5Y[/youtube] 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 ...read more

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 [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JzDATq5BXA[/youtube] 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 ...read more