In the April 2 edition of the Michigan News, writer Morgan Sherburne interviews UMMAA curator Brian Stewart about Lesotho, a small African country where he has conducted archaeological research for 17 years.
From the article: "I have been conducting archaeological research in Lesotho since 2008, excavating a series of large rock-shelters in the southeastern highlands with deep Stone Age deposits," says Stewart. "These archaeological sequences are important because they shed light on the development of human resourcefulness and resilience through time. We now know that our species, Homo sapiens, not only evolved its anatomical form within Africa, but also its basic adaptive capacity—an unprecedented aptitude for behavioral flexibility. This was forged over hundreds of thousands of years as our ancestors there found ways to survive and thrive in the face of dramatic swings in climate."
Read the article here: "Lesotho: Where we learned to be human."
