A group of researchers from the Interdisciplinary Center for Archeology and Evolution of Human Behavior (ICArEHB) of the University of Algarve is, during the month of May, carrying out archaeological prospecting in southern Mozambique, as part of the project “Middle Stone Age survey in the Limpopo and Elephant river valleys”, funded by the National Geographic Society, through the Wyatt program.
Led by Nuno Bicho, professor at the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences at UAlg, the team is looking to locate new Stone Age archaeological sites in the district of Massingir, Gaza province.
During prospecting, archaeologists intend to find traces related to the appearance of the first modern men in the region.
In previous years, the same team of archaeologists has already carried out fieldwork in other regions of Mozambique, namely in the area of Lake Niassa, where they have identified around a hundred new archaeological sites.
In addition to researchers from the University of Algarve, the team also includes researchers and students from the Eduardo Mondlane University (Mozambique), the University of Louisville (USA), and the University of North Carolina. Wilmington (USA) and the Max Planck Institute (Germany).
This project has the support of the Wenner-Gren Foundation (USA) and the Foundation for Science and Technology.
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