This interactive tour (wvr.li/ye0811) lets you explore various aspects of fieldwork at Boomplaas Cave in South Africa. The tour highlights several of the site's workstations & an incredible team of African-led researchers. U.S. National Science Foundation The Leakey Foundation CSHO @ NYU SASQUA

Really great to have PAST AFRICA support two of the Mandela Uni's Palaeolab 's Masters students this year🤩

❄️Curious about the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) and its impact on southern Africa's climates, environments, and human evolution? Our new #Quaternary Science Reviews paper (tinyurl.com/mwcfh948) sheds light on this icy chapter at #Boomplaas Cave

Save the date! and learn more about Nature's Fingerprints- #Biomarkers #StableIsotopes #Ethiopia #MAA Mapping Ancient Africa: Seminar 15 ecologyofthepast.info/2024/03/04/map… Prof. Stefanie Kaboth-Bahr🔬🐚🌎 William Gosling Sarah Ivory Lynne Quick INQUA

The #newsletter is officially out! Check your emails to see 2023 #highlights from our incredible members.

#SASQUA is offering #support for #ECRs and #students to attend the SASQUA #Congress in May 2024. Hurry up and apply through our website: sasqua.ca.za If you have any questions, please feel free to DM us or email [email protected]

Super proud of Asi Ntsondwa news.mandela.ac.za/News/-Mandela-…

Check out Stella's awesome work on #fire dynamics in the #CapeFloristicRegion #palaeoecology #research 🔥🌿 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

We are counting down to #SASQUAXXIV To start off, here are some video introductions of the students that will be attending the #congress See link below: instagram.com/reel/C679W-lq-…

Online seminar tomorrow for the INQUA Mapping Ancient Africa project "Quaternary period seismicity on the West African Craton" by N’dji dit Jacques Dembele ecologyofthepast.info/2024/05/15/map… #palaeoecology #palaeoclimate #archaeology #geology Prof. Stefanie Kaboth-Bahr🔬🐚🌎 Rahab Kinyanjui Sarah Ivory Lynne Quick

And all the talks and poster presentations🤓zenodo.org/records/111256… #SASQUAXXIV #research #conference

May highlights: fantastic #SASQUAXXIV congress with awards going to Mandela Uni's Palaeolab & African Centre for Coastal Palaeoscience students 🏆, tour of the excellent #Boomplaas excavation & #fieldwork in the Cango Valley & Cape Fold belt mts

June highlights: fieldwork trips into the Cederberg & Succulent Karoo, great to be out with the Varsche Rivier archaeological team & exploring old & new landscapes 💚 #collaboration #research

🎉New paper alert: A 6000-year pollen sequence reveals the pivotal role of🔥in shifting #SouthAfrica's Mediterranean-type vegetation to subtropical ecosystems🌿#GlobalChange #Palaeoecology Ecography cc Saul Manzano Manu Chevalier Adriaan Grobler | @[email protected] doi.org/10.1111/ecog.0…

Fire drives major Holocene vegetation shifts between subtropical and Mediterranean-type ecosystems: a case study from a biodiversity hotspot in South Africa nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ec… #Fire #VegetationChange #Palaeoecology Nordic Society Oikos Wiley Ecology & Evolution

Scientists have used pollen monitoring equipment to measure airborne microplastics for the first time. What did they find? MPs were detected in 95% of daily samples from sites in the UK and South Africa - with nylon the most abundant polymer. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

The 2nd Mapping Ancient Africa paper is out "Highland forest dynamics across equatorial East Africa during the end of the African humid period" by Sarah Ivory & colleagues in Quaternary International ecologyofthepast.info/2024/11/06/hig… Prof. Stefanie Kaboth-Bahr🔬🐚🌎 Rahab Kinyanjui Lynne Quick INQUA #palaeoecology

📣Our paper is Editor's Choice for the December issue of Ecography And respresents a key output from my National Research Foundation of South Africa African Origins Platform grant #research #palaeoecology Mandela Uni's Palaeolab Mandela University 🎓 nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

The Palaeolab wishes you all a very happy New Year ✨️ Stay tuned to see what our students and collaborators get up to this year! Mandela University Lynne Quick African Centre for Coastal Palaeoscience #science #newyear #research

Huge congratulations to our brilliant Palaeolab Mandela University Mandela University Faculty of Science MSc graduates Luke Nel and Marishka Govender! Also in the picture is head of the lab Lynne Quick. #mandelagrad25 #palaeopride Swipe to see their respective thesis titles.