The University of Witwatersrand says desert regions in northern Africa and the Arabian Peninsula have been well studied by archaeologists as the home of early humans and as routes of migration along corridors.
Professor Abi Stone says the archaeology of southern Africa’s west coast desert belt has not received the same attention.
Stone says the Namib Sand Sea, part of the Namib Desert, is on the west coast of Namibia.
He adds that it is a hyper-arid landscape of towering dunes, occupying about 34-thousand-square-kilometres between the towns of Lüderitz in the south and Walvis Bay in the north.
