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    OUR COASTAL ORIGINS

    Oct 08, 2020 2 minutes
    —MATTHEW BRUNWASSER

    s much as 100,000 years ago, modern humans in southern Africa began to settle down. Just how and why this momentous shift in our distant ancestors’ way of life occurred is difficult for scholars to say. Prehistoric hunter-gatherers from this era are among the most challenging humans to study. They did not leave behind any permanent structures as evidence of their presence, and their stone

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