Lion tracks from the ice age: how two ways of seeing brought ancient animals to life

By Charles Helm, Research Associate, African Centre for Coastal Palaeoscience, Nelson Mandela University
Clive Thompson, Research Associate, African Centre for Coastal Palaeoscience, Nelon Mandela University; Research Associate, Research Associate, Centre for Transformative Regulation of Work, University of the Western Cape
Jan Carlo De Vynck, Honorary researcher, Evolutionary Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand

The coastline near the southern tip of Africa looked vastly different between about 400,000 years ago and 70,000 years ago, compared with today. At times it lay as much as 100km south of its present location, exposing the vast Palaeo-Agulhas Plain, which contained an extensive habitat for large mammals. At other times the sea level was briefly as much as 13 metres higher than today’s mean level.

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