African Origins
A researchers’ encounter on African Prehistory
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Latest publications
Paleontology Africa
The Equidae from Cooper’s D, an early Pleistocene fossil locality in Gauteng, South Africa
S Badenhorst, CM Steininger – PeerJ, 2019
… Subjects Paleontology Keywords Equidae, Eurygnathohippus cornelianus, Equus capensis, Cooper’s D, Hipparion INTRODUCTION The Bloubank Valley in the Cradle of Humankind close to Johannesburg in South Africa is …
Paleoanthropology Africa
MV Caruana, D Tasker, DJ Stratford – African Archaeological Review, 2019
… (Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site), South Africa … Abstract The Cradle of Humankind World Heritage site in South Africa is renowned for its karstic cave systems, which have yielded extensive fossil and stone tool assemblages dating to the Plio-Pleistocene period …
The Environmental Context of the Earliest Acheulean at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
RV Patalano – 2019