For National Archaeology Week, Andy Herries recorded a seminar on his excavations in South Africa and the recent discovery of the World's oldest Homo erectus.

About the speaker: Andy Herries is the Head of Department of Archaeology and History at La Trobe University. He is a field palaeoanthropologist who studies Human Origins as well as a geochronologist and geoarchaeologist that runs The Australian Archaeomagnetism Laboratory. He is the director of two major research projects in South Africa: the Drimolen Cave Palaeoanthropology & Geoarchaeology Field School, looking at the transition from Australopithecus to early Homo and Paranthropus; and the Amanzi Springs Archaeology Project, looking at the transition from the Acheulian to the Middle Stone Age.

When: available all National Archaeology Week

Where: right here

Drimolen Cave and the World's Oldest Homo erectus