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New article published in AJPA

October 25, 2016
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—– In a recently published article in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology (click here to download the article), Marklein and colleagues proposed a new model for assessing biological health in archaeological samples, the skeletal frailty index (SFI).

Knysna Eastern Heads Cave 1 (KEH-1) and the modern coastline of South Africa

News from our South African Coastal Cave excavations

October 25, 2016
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—–    Last summer, I was part of a team excavating a Middle-Late Stone Age archaeological site in South Africa. Early humans occupied caves along the southern coast of Africa for about 200,000 years. Our site, Knysna Eastern Head Cave…