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Why seek our origins in the caves of the African continent?
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Laurent Bruxelles and his team, on the ground in Botswana.
© Carole Brussels
By: Caroline Lachowsky
1 min
Why and how to search for our origins in the caves of the African continent?
In the footsteps of Little Foot in South Africa, but also in Cameroon or Botswana, how do geo-archaeologists cooperate to uncover our bushy prehistory?
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From the well-known Omo Valley in the East African Rift to the Sterkfontein caves in South Africa via Central Africa, let's follow in the footsteps of geo-archaeologists and speleologists who unearth in preserved caves , another even richer diverse and bushy history of our humanity!
A prehistory that can be deciphered and dated on the ground, in the subsoil of the continent and in collaboration with archaeologists from South Africa, Botswana, Cameroon or Zimbabwe...
With
Laurent Bruxelles
, geomorphologist (or also geo-archaeologist) at Inrap, CNRS, the French Institute in South Africa (IFAS) and director of the French mission
Human Origins in Namibia (MEAE)
He will talk to us about its latest discoveries and its research work in Africa, as well as the new dynamics of
cooperation between Europe and Africa
, driven by the CNRS.
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