Hominid postcranial remains from Sterkfontein, South Africa, 1936-1995
The excavations at Sterkfontein Cave, Gauteng Province, South Africa, have yielded one of the largest collections of postcranial fossils of any hominin site. These fossils remain relatively unstudied, and few published comprehensively, despite the enormous potential of these fossils for answering qu...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York
Oxford University Press
2020, 2020
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| Series: | Human evolution series / Human evolution series
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| Collection: | Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | The excavations at Sterkfontein Cave, Gauteng Province, South Africa, have yielded one of the largest collections of postcranial fossils of any hominin site. These fossils remain relatively unstudied, and few published comprehensively, despite the enormous potential of these fossils for answering questions about Australopithecus africanus paleobiology, early hominin variation, and early human evolution. This volume presents photographs, anatomical descriptions and analyses for all Sterkfontein hominin postcranial fossils that were available for study in 2009, when an international workshop of experts was convened at University of the Witwatersrand to discuss and study this material |
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| Item Description: | Also issued in print: 2020 |
| Physical Description: | 408 pages illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9780197507698 |