The SapienCE Annual Report 2020

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SAPIENCE STAFF AND MANAGEMENT 48

COLLABORATION WITH PONTUS SKOGLUND The SapienCE initiative is a unique project to understand one of the most crucial periods of human origins from multiple perspectives. Our recent improved understanding of ancient DNA from the past 15,000 years in Africa, when integrated with information from present-day genomes, have shed new light on what we know and don’t know about the origins of modern human ancestry. Further, these findings have highlighted the rich complexity of recent population

history in Africa in a way that may guide understanding of more ancient prehistory. Integrating our understanding of genomic ancestry with the diverse expertise of the SapienCE network has been very beneficial, and we are hopeful that further unravelling of the Holocene and Terminal Pleistocene population landscape in southern Africa will further improve our interdisciplinary understanding.


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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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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

1min
page 40

CogSci 2020 session report

1min
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

2min
pages 28-29

Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science

1min
page 31

Tracking our earliest human ancestors

5min
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

1min
page 6

Marine cores

3min
pages 14-15

Statement from the director

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pages 4-5
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