Postdoc Elizabeth Velliky excavating at Blombos Cave in March 2020.
STATEMENT FROM THE DIRECTOR A lot of water has passed under the SapienCE bridge in 2020. The Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in all our SapienCE scientists having to rethink and adapt their research plans for 2020 and beyond into 2021. There have been some major setbacks, yet despite these unfortunate interruptions I can also report that our swift mitigatory actions resulted in several positive outcomes.