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This 2.4-Million-Year-Old Discovery Alters Human History

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The discovery of 2.4-million-year-old stone tools in north Africa have—yet again—altered the human origin story. “The evidence from Algeria has changed [our] earlier view regarding East Africa [as] being the cradle of humankind. Actually, the entire Africa was the cradle of humankind,” Mohamed Sahnouni, an archaeologist at Spain’s National Research Center for Human Evolution, says. Humanity’s distant cousin, the hominin, moved north through (and evolved and developed …

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Spotlight on Algeria at the Museum of African Design

"D'Zair: Art and Craft A Johannesburg" features Algerian-made works from 13 artists

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We’ve been following the Museum of African Design (MOAD), in Johannesburg, since its inception in 2013. As the first museum on the continent dedicated to contemporary design across Africa, it celebrates the past, present and future of visual understanding developed at home. For their first exhibition of 2016, “D’Zair: Art and Craft A Johannesburg,” MOAD has partnered with the Algerian Ministry of Culture. Some 13 …