At a rock shelter 540km east of Cape Town, researchers traced back some of the earliest Homo sapiens genetic ancestry (IMAGE)

University of Johannesburg

At a rock shelter 540km east of Cape Town, researchers traced back some of the earliest Homo sapiens genetic ancestry

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The Matjes River Rockshelter in the Western Cape, South Africa, 540 km east of Cape Town. Eight people who lived here between 10,200 and 3000 years ago contributed DNA to this study.

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Photo by Nicholas Wiltshire.

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