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Namaqualand moundsVOA
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South African termite mounds that are still inhabited in an arid region of the country are more than 30,000 years old .
They predate some of the earliest cave paintings in Europe .
The oldest inhabited mounds before this study were found in Brazil and are around 4,000 year old .
The mounds are a termite version of an "apartment complex" and the evidence shows they have been consistently inhabited.
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