The great journey out of Africa may have begun at low tide
Daily Maverick | 02.05.2026 01:32
A stone hand axe found on a wet day near the Elands estuary lit the spark. Alan Whitfield, a lifelong estuarine ecologist at the South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity in Makhanda, had been on a field excursion during a workshop when a coastal geologist picked up a beautifully worked Early Stone Age tool and placed it in his hand.
