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"Out of Africa" theory has been confirmed by new finds from the Middle Awash region of Ethiopia of near-complete adult skull and a partial child's skull have been dated to about 160,000 years old, making them the oldest remains that can be firmly assigned to modern Homo sapiens. In addition this shows that morphologically modern humans had emerged long before 'classic' Neanderthals vanished from Eurasia. The series of illustrations on the
Evidence for the 'Out of Africa' hypothesis for the origin of Homo sapiens has been questioned because of the lack of African hominid fossils from a critical period, between 100,000 and 300,000 years ago. New finds from the Middle Awash region of Ethiopia have filled that gap. A near-complete adult skull and a partial child's skull have been dated to about 160,000 years old, making them the oldest remains that can be firmly assigned to modern Homo sapiens.
In addition this shows that morphologically modern humans had emerged long before 'classic' Neanderthals vanished from Eurasia. The series of illustrations on the cover, by J. Matternes, are reconstructions based on the fossilized adult male cranium from the Herto locality.
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South Africa Chinese Miners
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This year marks the 100th anniversary of the start of an influx of 63,000 Chinese workers to revitalise South Africa's gold mines - brought to a standstill by the Anglo-Boer war.
The British authorities' idea of importing Chinese labour met stiff resistance, but the wages offered to African miners were so low that the mine owners were unable to recruit enough labour. White miners were afraid that the Chinese would undercut their wages, while Afrikaans farmers feared that their agricultural skills would ruin their markets.
Read more and see them in pictures
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South Africa Cave Art & Paintings
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A huge collection of rock paintings in South Africa examined recently by archaeologists of Britain's Newcastle University and Australian National University, using the latest radio-carbon dating technology, found that the Ukhahlamba-Drakensberg paintings are 3,000 years old as opposed to earlier "conclusiion" that the paintings by San hunters-gatherers were 1,000 years old.
These over 40,000 rock "pain"works" were considered them as primitive and crude when Europeans first encountered the rock paintings 150 years ago they. But experts now consider the area to be the largest grouping of paintings in Africa, south of the Sahara.
The paintings by the San hunter-gatherers who settled in the area about 8,000 years ago were made using mainly black, white and orange pigments, depict ing animals and human scenes, representative of the San religious beliefs. Read more
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DO YOU KNOW, (DYK)
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 African Mothers: Key findings and lessons learnt, thanks to the State of The World Mothers 2005 report
→ Cluster Bomb and their civilian impact. Other sites are
The Havocs of Cluster Munitions, CMC-International, the
The Case Againts Cluster Bombs
→ The USA has the world's greatest number of prisoner per inhabitants; 714/100 000 according to the International Center for Prison Studies
→ Firearms killed more than 550 000 persons were killed by firearms in Brazil between 1979 and 2003, according to a UNESCO reports more than in the Isrealo-Palestinian conflicts.
See also Chlidren of Favela
‡ Two natural wonders of Africa have been added to a list of protected World Heritage sites by the United Nations: the Vredefort Dome, South Africa, was added for its scenic and scientific interest and
the Wadi al-Hitan, known as Whale Valley, Egypt, was listed for its amazing fossil remains of now-extinct whales.
† Why I Love Africa
→ Africa Live
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