Dung-rich sediment provides definitive evidence of millet farming in the region.
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Anne Johnakin '23 made a stone and clay oven to test fuels used in ancient ceramics.
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Centuries before the pharaohs emerged in Egypt, the local elites used a thick porridge-like beer in their ceremonies.
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Findings of research on the Dronkvlei Cave System in South Africa, which was funded by the Claire Garber Goodman Fund for the Anthropological Study of Human Culture, have been published in the November/December Issue of the South African Journal of Science.
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Paleoanthropologist, Jeremy DeSilva quoted in a "New York Times" story about his co-authored study that found that prints discovered in Tanzania in 1976 may have been made by an unidentified early human ancestor about 3.6 million years ago.
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