Scifest Focus on SA's Ancient Past Prof Susan Greenfield Three leading specialists in African prehistory will present the latest findings and thinking on human origins in Africa. Dr Brigette Senut and Dr Martin Pickford (associated with the Museum of Natural History in Paris) and Dr Francis Thackery of the SA Natural History Museum, will give a lecture on "Who's Who in the Plio Pleistocene". Their talk will include some discussion on the recently discovered 3,3 million year old Sterkfontein hominid and new finds in East Africa. They will speak on 1 April at the Grahamstown Monument Theatre at 18h30. Entrance is R10. On April 2 at the same venue, Dr Johann Binneman, head of Archaeology at Grahamstown's Albany Museum, will present his findings of the 2 000 year old San mummy found in the mountains near Coega in the Eastern Cape. The body, which was discovered in April 1999 under a rock slab with yellow paintings, has been studied at the Albany Museum. For anyone interested in the fascinating workings of the human brain, the lecture by Professor Susan Greenfield, director of the Royal Institute of Great Britain, will be compulsive listening. Professor Greenfield will talk about how the brain - which has remain relatively unchanged for the past 30 000 years is on the brink of modification given the advances in genetic engineering and organ transplanting. She will speak at the 18h30 at the Monument on March 31st. For the full story on the latest Sterkfontein hominid [ Click here ] ©Copyright Prime Origins 2001 CONTACT BRETT HILTON-BARBER primeorigins.co.za is an iafrica.com Private Label site

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