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Join us on Twitter! Be the first to receive interesting news and information about SapienCE events in Norway and South Africa. Our Tweets were viewed more than 18 000 times in 2019. The most popular tweet of 2019 announced the opening of our ‘Origins of Early Sapiens Behaviour’ exhibition at Iziko South African Museum in Cape Town, closely followed by a tweet announcing a new paper on early human engravings co-authored by Francesco d’Errico. Scan the QR code to stay up to date.

Of course, we have a Facebook page! We post news, events and papers here, but there are big differences between the interests of our Twitter and Facebook followers. Our most popular Facebook post, which reached nearly 13 500 people, showed the University of Bergen Rector Dag Rune Olsen, visiting our excavation at Blombos. Our second most popular post reached 3 300 people, and highlighted a newspaper article commemorating shell beads found at Blombos in 2004. Scan the QR code and reflect on the fact that, like our SapienCE archaeologists, you're interested in yesterday's cutting-edge technology

Editor-In-Chief: Turid Hillestad Nel

Editorial Group: Carin Andersson Dahl Eystein Jansen Janne-Beate Buanes Duke Simon Armitage Silje Evjenth Bentsen

Design & Layout: Renate Paulsen

Photos: Magnus Mathisen Haaland, UiB (p. 11, 27) Ole Fredrik Unhammer, UiB (Cover, p. 4, 10, 11, 21, 24, 34, 44, 60) Christopher Henshilwood, UiB (p. 15) Craig Foster (p. 16, 26, 45) Silje Evjenth Bentsen (p. 20, 21, 32, 33, 37, 60) Carin Andersson Dahl (p.20) Eivind Senneset (p. 20, 23, 25) Karen van Niekerk (p.12, 15, 21, 41, 60) Warren Smart (p. 41, 46, 60) SapienCE, UiB: (p. 9, 60) Torill Christine Lindstrøm (p. 16) Amy Rusch (p. 26) Sarah Wurz (p. 36) Janne-Beate Buanes Duke (p. 38, 44) Stephen Alvarez (p. 38) Kunstnerenes Hus (p. 45) Torill Christine Lindstrøm (p.60)