The SapienCE Annual Report 2020

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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.


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Selected publications 2020

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pages 52-53

Social media

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pages 54-56

Collaboration with Pontus Skoglund

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page 48

SapienCE lunch seminars

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page 42

The Brain Power Award

1min
pages 43-44

Pint of SapienCE

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page 41

Public talks in South Africa

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page 40

CogSci 2020 session report

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page 39

Outreach in Jongenstein

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page 38

New web pages

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page 37

Hydroclimatic and vegetational reconstructions using leaf waxes in cave sediments

1min
pages 35-36

Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are

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pages 28-29

Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science

1min
page 31

Tracking our earliest human ancestors

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pages 32-34

Working through the pandemic

2min
pages 26-27

The evolution of cognitive tools for quantification (QUANTA

4min
pages 23-25

Experimental field season

3min
pages 12-13

Fieldwork

3min
pages 10-11

Collecting stalagmites from Bloukrans Cave

3min
pages 16-17

Brain activation during flintknapping

3min
pages 18-19

Symbols in mind and body

5min
pages 20-22

Scope

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page 6

Marine cores

3min
pages 14-15

Statement from the director

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pages 4-5
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