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Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed continues to push reforms that have garnered global praise. But, Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes argues, Abiy is ignoring an important group: the country's rural majority, who contribute significantly to the economy and must be included in the ongoing national conversation.
It's well established that our ancestors hunted, ate and worshiped many animals. Their bones were also used to create tools, like arrowheads. Justin Bradfield explains how a modern technique has uncovered fascinating details about which animals' bones were used for tools - and which were left alone, probably because of cultural taboos.
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An Ethiopian farmer in the Amhara highlands outside the historic village of Lalibela.
EPA/Stephen Morrison
Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes, Curtin University
Despite all Ethiopia's Abiy Ahmed's inspirational reforms, there can be no progress without the rural majority.
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Bone artefacts from various South African Stone Age archaeological sites have been interpreted as arrowheads.
J. Bradfield (as published in Bradfield, J. & Choyke, A. 2016. Bone technology in Africa. In: H. Selin (ed.), Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures, pp, 20-27. Springer).
Justin Bradfield, University of Johannesburg
Species-level identification of bone tools has been undertaken for the first time in southern Africa.
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Education
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Sharon Fonn, University of the Witwatersrand
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Gaathier Mahed, Nelson Mandela University
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