found at Swartkrans, up to 1.5 million years ago. In addition, some of the earliest evidence of modified bone tools has also been found at Swartkrans and Sterkfontein...
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Cradle of Humankind (redirect from Fossil Hominid Sites of Sterkfontein, Swartkrans, Kromdraai, and Environs)
Later in 1948, Robert Broom identified the first hominid remains from Swartkrans cave. In 1954, C.K. Brain began working at sites in the Cradle, including...
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around the same area, now known as the Cradle of Humankind. In 1948, at Swartkrans Cave, in about the same vicinity as Kromdraai, Broom and South African...
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Puma. It was described based on fossils from the Early Pleistocene-aged Swartkrans site in South Africa. Puma incurva had previously been described in 1956...
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one of the richest sites for hominin fossils in the world, as well as Swartkrans, Gondolin Cave, Kromdraai, Cooper's Cave and Malapa. Raymond Dart identified...
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discovered at the nearby Swartkrans Cave in 1948. P. robustus was only definitively identified at Kromdraai and Swartkrans until around the turn of the...
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1948), and a revision of Puma incurva (Ewer, 1956), the Early Pleistocene Swartkrans "leopard" (Carnivora, Felidae)". Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments...
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Oldowan (section Swartkrans)
of bone tools by hominins also producing Oldowan tools is known from Swartkrans, where a bone shaft with a polished point was discovered in Member (layer)...
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River valley, about 800 meters (0.50 miles; 2,600 feet) southwest of Swartkrans, part of the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site in South Africa....
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Plio-Pleistocene in South Africa, where fossils have been found in the Swartkrans dated to as recently as 1.5 million years ago. Proteles amplidentus was...
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