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Ancient southern Kalahari was more important to human evolution than previously thought – The Conversation Africa
People were drawn to Ga-Mohana for many reasons. Surface water was likely among them.
The Kalahari is a huge expanse of desert in southern Africa, stretching across Botswana and into the northernmost part of South Africas Northern Cape province.
Its in the Northern Cape that we studied and described a new archaeological site, Ga-Mohana Hill, for research just published in Nature.
Our international team, made up of researchers from South Africa, Canada, the UK, Australia and Austria, has found evidence for complex symbolic behaviours 105,000 years ago.
Humans use symbols as a shortcut…
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