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Citizen scientists and San trackers on the trail of our human origins along Southern Cape's stormy coast

Join Don Pinnock and a team of citizen scientists and Ju/’hoansi San trackers on an expedition along Africa's Cape South Coast to find ancient creatures of a drowned world and the origin of our species.
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By Daily Maverick
13 Nov
Jan De Fynck checks a trackway. (Photo: Don Pinnock)From the shores of what was once a vast (but now inundated) Paleo-Agulhas Plain to Blombos Cave where humans began experimenting with art, this three-part series explores how the first Homo sapiens survived a brutal Ice Age and thrived to become us. But can the team find a 100,000-year-old human footprint? Part 1: Citizen science, master trackers and deciphering the sands of time [caption id="attachment_2423716" align="alignnone" width="2560"]Aeolinate formations Strange aeolianite formations near Still Bay. (Photo: Don Pinnock)[/caption] Part 2: Blombos Cave and the birth of human intelligence [caption id="attachment_2456156" align="alignnone" width="1500"]Blombos Cave Expedition organiser Clive Thomson on the path to Blombos Cave. (Photo: Simon Sephton)[/caption] Part 3: An undisclosed coast and the search for the magical human footmark [caption id="attachment_2448250" align="alignnone" width="2560"]Ancient footprints, Jan De Fynck Jan De Fynck checks a trackway. (Photo: Don Pinnock)[/caption]    

From the shores of what was once a vast (but now inundated) Paleo-Agulhas Plain to Blombos Cave where humans began experimenting with art, this three-part series explores how the first Homo sapiens survived a brutal Ice Age and thrived to become us. But can the team find a 100,000-year-old human footprint?

Part 1: Citizen science, master trackers and deciphering the sands of time

Aeolinate formations Strange aeolianite formations near Still Bay. (Photo: Don Pinnock)



Part 2: Blombos Cave and the birth of human intelligence

Blombos Cave Expedition organiser Clive Thomson on the path to Blombos Cave. (Photo: Simon Sephton)



Part 3: An undisclosed coast and the search for the magical human footmark

Ancient footprints, Jan De Fynck Jan De Fynck checks a trackway. (Photo: Don Pinnock)



 

 

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