GEORGE NEWS - Georgians interested in geological findings in our area will have the rare opportunity on Saturday 2 December to hear Dr Charles Helm speak on recent palaeoscientific findings on the Cape South coast.
The event will be held at the George Museum.
Helm is a research associate with the African Centre for Coastal Palaeoscience at Nelson Mandela University in Gqeberha.
He has been researching fossil vertebrate tracks and traces on the Cape south coast since 2007. So far, 350 track sites have been found between Arniston and Robberg, yielding 35 scientific papers.
Included are hominin track sites including the oldest known Homo Sapiens footprints, probable evidence of the oldest use of footwear, and patterns our ancestors made in the sand.
Other highlights include hatchling turtle trackways, the first global record of elephant trunk drag impressions, giant tortoise tracks, the first snake traces in the global record, crocodile trackways, and tracks of larger-than-expected birds.
The presentation will feature these and other discoveries, including research findings from the 2023 field season, and will interpret them in a historical and environmental context.
The meeting will start at 10:00 and conclude at 12:00.
This is a joint Wessa Eden and George Heritage Trust event.
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