STILBAAI NEWSFLASH - The role played by Genetics in archaeological research with reference to developments in Africa, was the topic of a lecture by Prof Carina Schlebusch from the Department of Organismal Biology at the Evolutionary Biology Centre at the Uppsala University in Sweden at Die Waenhuis at Jagersbosch on Monday 13 November.
This lecture was arranged by the Hessequa Archaeology Assocciation. Schlebusch, who is from Kroonstad in the Free State, together with Prof Michael de Jongh, an anthropologist at Unisa and Mario Vicente, a student at the Uppsala University conducted a genetic study among the Southern Cape Hessequa descendants to try to trace the genetic ancestry of the people of the Southern Cape.
During 2016 they collected saliva from volunteers and the results were analyzed at the Uppsala University.
A total of 160 samples from nine locations along the Cape south coast, between Stormsvlei in the West to Melkhoutfontein in the East were collected.
Mario Vicente, Prof Carina Schlebusch and Prof Michael de Jongh.
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