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Tiny Human Relatives Walked Upright 2 Million Years Ago, World-First Fossil Find Reveals
That’s why the hip, thigh, and shinbone found at Swartkrans Cave – the first place P. robustus and Homo fossils were found ...
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Did this prehistoric species really make its own tools?
A recent discovery in the Swartkrans cave sheds new light on this still poorly understood species. The fossils of ...
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New fossil discovery of an early human ancestor reveals that it walked upright, just like humans
Unfortunately, Swartkrans has over the years yielded many fewer bones from the rest of the Paranthropus robustus skeleton, limiting our understanding of its stature, posture, and locomotion ...
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Smallest hominin walked upright, fossils reveal
The fossil bones were found in South Africa’s Swartkrans Cave, a kilometre northwest of Sterkfontein, within the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site in South Africa. Many skulls and hundreds ...
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Decision 29 COM 8B.25
1. Having examined Documents WHC-05/29.COM/8B and WHC-05/29.COM/INF.8B.1, 2. Approves the extension of the Fossil Hominid Sites of Sterkfontein, Swartkrans, Kromdraai, and Environs (South Africa) to ...
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Fossil Hominid Sites of South Africa
44 - Fossil hominids sites of South Africa (South Africa) (C 915bis) 2013 37COM 7B.44 - Fossil Hominid Sites of Sterkfontein, Swartkrans, Kromdraai, and Environs (South Africa) (C 915bis) 2013 37COM ...