"Woe to the light of dawn."
A spooky mandalorian concept I had kicking around my head. Surprise, surprise, it involves vampires because I am hideously predictable!
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#starwars #starwarsfanart #mandalorian #mandalorianart #procreate #digitaldrawing #noaiart #vampire #taung #beskar

Helping produce #Setswana translations for this #Taung Child special issue from
@SAJS_Official
was a very special project for us.

Thanks to all for their support #languagematters

👉🏾https://sajs.co.za/article/view/20667/23562

So proud of this #Taung Child special issue from the South African Journal of Science (SAJS). And having our Co-directors Rebecca Ackermann & @pickeringrobyn.bsky.social along with HERI's Lauren Schroeder and UCT's Yonatan Sahle supporting to guest edit the special issue. sajs.co.za/article/view...

📢 Excited to share our new paper published in the South African Journal of Science as part of the special issue commemorating the #Taung centenary! Check it out here 👉 sajs.co.za/article/view...

Happening in 10 minutes! 👇🏾

Celbrate today's 100-year anniversary of the discovery of the #Taung Child skull with the #palaeoanthropology community in #SouthAfrica🌍

Starting at 15.00 SAST / 08.00 EST
Register here: bit.ly/4hyV28M

Hot off the press! 📢
Honoured to have contributed to this special issue with @ameliebeaudet.bsky.social and team celebrating the iconic #Taung child for this centenary event. Stay tuned for more! #Palaeoanthropology #FossilFriday

To commemorate the #Taung centenary, a special issue of the SAJS came out today!

We present a collection of articles looking at aspects of the #history, #anatomy, #geology, #community and -#museum curation of the #Taung child in this post colonial era 🙌🏽

Link here 👇🏽👇🏽

sajs.co.za/index

Today is the centenary of the #Taung Child!

The #palaeoanthropology community in #SouthAfrica has come together to present a webinar to mark this moment.

Click on the link below!!

We reflect on the last 100 years of #human #evolution and look to the future.

The story of Taung Child should be told by South Africans, for South Africans, and from #SouthAfrica.

Join us to commemorate the light #Taung shines on our heritage & shared origins.

➡️Friday 7 Feb at 15.00 SAST / 08.00 EST

🌍Register here: bit.ly/4hyV28M

This February is the 100-year anniversary of the discovery of the #Taung Child skull.

Join the #palaeoanthropology community in #SouthAfrica to commemorate at this free online webinar.

Happening Friday 7 Feb at 15.00 SAST / 08.00 EST

Register here: bit.ly/4hyV28M

Super interesting new article by @jjrowan.bsky.social & Bernard Wood celebrating 100 years of the discovery of the #Taung fossil 😍
Dart and the Taung juvenile: making sense of a century-old record of hominin evolution in Africa

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

This week in history: November 18-24 Myanmar-Thailand border clash; UN recognizes Palestinian “right of return”;British Labour government nationalizes iron and steel industry; first Australopithecus skull discovered.

#archaeology #anthropology

100 years ago

Australian #anthropologist #RaymondDart at the #UniversityoftheWitwatersrand identified a skull discovered at a limestone quarry in #Taung, #SouthAfrica as the first specimen of the #hominin species #Australopithecusafricanus

www.wsws.org/en/articles/...