The archaeology of southern Africa’s west coast desert belt has not received the same attention. The Namib Sand Sea, part of the Namib Desert, is on the west coast of Namibia. It is a hyperarid ...

During the 1980s, anthropologist Myra Shackley traveled across southern Namibia documenting numerous isolated sites, ...

Namib Sand Sea is the only coastal desert in the world that includes extensive dune fields influenced by fog. Covering an area of over three million hectares and a buffer zone of 899,500 hectares, the ...

The Sahara is often thought of as the driest desert in the world, but there is in fact a desert that is even older and more arid, with some parts receiving absolutely no rain at all for 200 million ye ...

Their color provides perfect camouflage among the powdery reddish sands of the Namib Desert ... They move surprisingly quickly across the sand, and adhesive pads on their toes make them excellent ...