Tag Archive for 'Swaziland'

Border Cave perched on a cliff in the Lebombo Mountains. Image credit: Ashley Kruger.

Stone Age Humans Roasted Root Vegetables 170,000 Years Ago

Jan 9, 2020 by Enrico de Lazaro

Archaeologists have unearthed 170,000-year-old whole, charred rhizomes of flowering plants from the genus Hypoxis in a cave in southern Africa. These botanical...

Gyronotus perissinottoi at the Umthamvuna Nature Reserve, South Africa. Image credit: Lynette Clennell.

Two New Species of Mysterious Scarab Beetles Found in Southern Africa

Oct 22, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Entomologists Dr Renzo Perissinotto from the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, and Dr Philippe Moretto from France...