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The inscription in 2013 of the Namib Sand Sea, Namibia’s second World Heritage site, as a natural rather than a mixed or cultural site explicitly denies its human history of almost 1 million years, the longest human history among all the southern hemisphere desert regions. The issue explored here is the presentation of the Namib Sand Sea as a landscape of outstanding natural beauty where the conservation of geomorphological features, and endemic plants and animals supersedes the importance of archaeological information which is culturally and politically significant to present-day Indigenous peoples. The archaeological sequence shows evidence of occupation through the entire Late Pleistocene. A small number of British adventurer-traders backed the Ovaherero to break Orlam hegemony, and the decades between the 1850s and 1880s were characterised by conflicts and shifts in power from one Indigenous group to the other.
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