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Human Evolution Research Institute at University of Cape Town
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Research by HERI’s @drpeechiwara.bsky.social uses ICP-MS & XRF to trace ancient tools from Tswalu to their geological sources, revealing new insights into early human raw material selection.
🔗https://www.heriuct.co.za/news-content/how-icp-ms-and-xrf-methods-help-us-understand-early-human-behaviour
🌍 Artifacts from Africa
Ostrich eggshell beads are among the most enduring forms of personal ornamentation in southern Africa - small artifacts that reveal ancient traditions and social connections.
🔍 Learn what these beads reveal from HERI's Amy Hatton:
www.heriuct.co.za/news-content...
Our HERI’s Rivoningo Khosa revisits the landscapes around the #TaungChild fossil.
Her study shows southern Africa was more dynamic and less dry than previously thought, using new quantitative methods to create richer models of landscape evolution.
Read the paper: sajs.co.za/article/view...
🌍Have you seen the HUMANITY exhibition yet?
Launched in partnership between HERI and Iziko Museum, it takes visitors on a journey that explores our diversity and how we became who we are today.
More info here: bit.ly/4cNAzvI
Open days & hours link: bit.ly/4issDRx
Did you know? 🦴 A dental enamel fragment from the Australopithecus africanus fossil continues to shed light on early human biology—and was part of research that won the @sajournalofscience.bsky.social Outstanding Article Award 2025.
Read more: www.heriuct.co.za/news-content...
A single fossil. A century of debate.
Unburied Season 2: The #TaungChild traces how a #SouthAfrican discovery disrupted science and reshaped ideas about human origins.
Created by ARC with HERI at UCT.
🎧 All episodes out now: www.heriuct.co.za/news-content...
This is what pan-African collaboration looks like!
Our master’s students, Akira Banwari and Keane Wanza, joined the field season in Laetoli, #Tanzania, to gain hands-on experience at sites famous for early hominin footprints, fossils, and stone tools.
Read more: www.heriuct.co.za/news-content...
We are proud of our HERI PhD student, Georgina Luti, who presented her work today at EGU 2026 🇦🇹.
Her research explores aragonite preservation in calcite speleothems and what it reveals about the reliability of dating these cave deposits, using samples from #SouthAfrica’s Cradle of Humankind.
Podcasting can bring #humanevolution research into public conversation - where more voices can be heard.
Our podcast on the #TaungChild explores how the Taung fossil reshaped ideas about human origins in #Africa.
🎧 Listen to all 4 episodes FREE: www.heriuct.co.za/news-content...
🐝Pollen can reveal ecosystem changes over time.
Research led by HERI’s Dr. Tsilavo Razafimanantsoa uses modern pollen rain in #Madagascar to shed light on ancient pollen records - so we can better understand the origins of open ecosystems on the island.
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Human Evolution Research Institute at University of Cape Town
Human Evolution Research Institute at University of Cape Town
Human Evolution Research Institute at University of Cape Town
Human Evolution Research Institute at University of Cape Town
Human Evolution Research Institute at University of Cape Town
Human Evolution Research Institute at University of Cape Town
Human Evolution Research Institute at University of Cape Town
Human Evolution Research Institute at University of Cape Town
Human Evolution Research Institute at University of Cape Town
Human Evolution Research Institute at University of Cape Town
