Citizen scientists and San trackers on the trail of our human origins along Southern Cape's stormy coast

Join Don Pinnock and a team of citizen scientists and Ju/’hoansi San trackers on an expedition along Africa's Cape South Coast to find ancient creatures of a drowned world and the origin of our species.

From the shores of what was once a vast (but now inundated) Paleo-Agulhas Plain to Blombos Cave where humans began experimenting with art, this three-part series explores how the first Homo sapiens survived a brutal Ice Age and thrived to become us. But can the team find a 100,000-year-old human footprint? Part 1: Citizen science, master trackers and deciphering the sands of time [caption id="attachment_2423716" align="alignnone" width="2560"] Strange aeolianite formations near Still Bay. (Photo: Don Pinnock)[/caption] Part 2: Blombos Cave and the birth of human intelligence [caption id="attachment_2456156" align="alignnone" width="1500"] Expedition organiser Clive Thomson on the path to Blombos Cave. (Photo: Simon Sephton)[/caption] Part 3: An undisclosed coast and the search for the magical human footmark [caption id="attachment_2448250" align="alignnone" width="2560"] Jan De Fynck checks a trackway. (Photo: Don Pinnock)[/caption]