Huddersfield archaeologists help to reveal Namibian genocide grave sites

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Press release based on an active Impact Accelerator Project Grant

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Researchers from the University of Huddersfield’s Centre of Archaeology have travelled to Namibia to help uncover more evidence of atrocities from what has been called “the first genocide of the 20th Century”.

Tens of thousands of peoples from the Ovaherero and Nama tribes were killed during Germany’s occupation of the country, then called German Southwest Africa, between 1904 and 1908. 

The Centre’s Kevin Colls and William Mitchell visited a cemetery in the coastal town of Swakopmund that is known to contain the remains of thousands  of slave workers in marked graves.