ERC Secretary General, Prof. Donald Dingwell, pays visit to Klipdrift Cave & Shelter, southern Cape, South Africa on 17th March, 2012

South Africa, second stop of the "ERC goes Global" campaign

See GALLERY on this website for images of the visit

http://tracsymbols.eu/gallery/

The secretary general of the ERC, Prof. Donald Dingwell and Ms. Sabine Simmross visited the Tracsymbols Project archaeological site, Klipdrift Cave & Shelter, located in the De Hoop Nature Reserve, southern Cape, South Africa on the 17th March.

For an advance review of the visit and Prof. Dingwell's visit to South Africa please see

http://erc.europa.eu/sites/default/files/document/file/ERC_highlight_ZA_visit.pdf

16th February, 2012 - Nature article: Review of TRACSYMBOLS projects at Blombos Cave, Klipdrift Shelter and our Palaeoenvironmental Reconstruction project - author Jeff Tollefson

Jeff Tollefson has published an article (release date 16th February 2012) on the work being done within the Tracsymbols project at Blombos Cave, Klipdrift Shelter and on palaeoenvironmental reconstruction. For more information see

http://www.nature.com/news/human-evolution-cultural-roots-1.10025

To download the article go to the section on FILES on this website

  Tollefson 2012 Cultural Roots - A South African archaeologist Nature 2.pdf

Blombos Cave to feature on Japanese television on Sunday 22nd January

Just wanted to let you know that the programme featuring Blombos will go out in Japan this sunday.

Here's the official NHK webpage of the programme:
http://www.nhk.or.jp/special/onair/120122.html
and the series:
http://www.nhk.or.jp/special/onair/human.html

Mayu Kamide