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Wesley Cracks Ancient Quest

http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1321792002

From the Edinburgh Evening News, amateur archaeologist has discovered a clutch of rare and ancient ostrich eggs.

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UNESCO: uKhahlamba / Drakensberg Park

http://whc.unesco.org/pg.cfm?cid=31&id_site=985

Photographs and information on this park and the criteria for its selection as a World Heritage Centre.

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Taung Skull Heads Back to its Ancient Home

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=31&art_id=vn20030407053755999C616745&set_id=1

From IOL, famous Taung skull will be returned to the site of its discovery where it will be the major attraction at an improved heritage site.

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Sterkfontein Caves

http://www.places.co.za/html/sterkfontein_caves.html

One of the world's most productive and important palaeoanthropological sites.

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Rock Art Research Institute

http://rockart.wits.ac.za/

The Institute seeks to develop understandings of Africa's rock arts in terms of authentic beliefs, customs, rituals and life-ways. Includes: archive, research, courses, publications, staff, and links.

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Rock Art Department of the National Museum

http://www.nasmus.co.za/departments/rock-art/

Aims to locate, record, interpret and manage the diverse rock engraving and rock painting traditions of southern Africa. Includes information, staff, collections, research, publications and contact details.

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Public Must Decide Fate of 300-year-old Remains

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=31&art_id=vn20030724062210294C410247&set_id=1

From IOL, development of an office and retail site in Prestwich Street, Green Point, has come to a halt to allow archaeologists to dig up what are believed to be about 1 000 skeletons at an informal, 300-year-old cemetery.

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Pniel 6

http://www.southampton.ac.uk/archaeology/research/projects/pniel6.html

Archaeological excavations at a Stone Age site in the Northern Cape being undertaken by the University of Southampton.

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National Museum Department of Archaeology

http://www.nasmus.co.za/departments/archaeology/

Department aims to conduct scientific investigations of the lifestyles and customs of the early inhabitants of the Free State Province, South Africa.

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Major Hominid Find in Southern Africa

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1544717.stm

From the BBC, the oldest known hominid fossils yet found in southern Africa are uncovered at the Sterkfontein Caves.

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King Sandile's Found

http://www.dispatch.co.za/2005/06/02/Easterncape/bdig.html

From the Dispatch, the full skeleton of King Mgolombane Sandile was found with its skull intact yesterday at Tyusha Forest near here after scientists spent two days carefully sifting through his grave to clarify his death 127 years ago.

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Geelbek Dunes, West Coast National Park

http://www.urgeschichte.uni-tuebingen.de/index.php?id=92

Brief description with photos of investigations of Stone Age remains from a site located approximately 90 km north of Cape Town.

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Fossil Hominid Sites of Sterkfontein, Swartkrans, Kromdraai, and Environs

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/915/

UNESCO World Heritage site. Includes photographs, maps and a description of the site.

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Florisbad Quaternary Research Department of the National Museum

http://www.nasmus.co.za/departments/florisbad-quaternary-research/

Conducts interdisciplinary palaeo-environmental research, primarily in the central region of southern Africa. Includes research, publications and contact details.

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Arts of the San People in Nomansland

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/noma/hd_noma.htm

Article by Geoffrey Blundell on the paintings of the San people who survived in this area for longer than in other parts of South Africa.

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Ancient Jewellery Found in African Cave

http://www.nature.com/nsu/040412/040412-9.html

From Nature, 75,000-year-old beads were found in the Blombos Cave on the southern tip of South Africa.

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African Rock Art: The Coldstream Stone

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/cold/hd_cold.htm

Article on this small polychrome stone, found buried with a human skeleton near the Lottering River in the southern part of the Western Cape province.

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