Hominin Postcranial Remains from Sterkfontein, South Africa, 1936-1995
Bernhard Zipfel, Brian G. Richmond, and Carol V. Ward
Abstract
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 ... More
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. The chapters in this volume represent a foundation for further investigations with which to interpret these and other fossils from Sterkfontein, and from all over Africa, that will be recovered in years to come.
Keywords:
Sterkfontein Caves,
postcranial remains,
hominins,
fossils,
Australopithecus africanus,
human evolution
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2020 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780197507667 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: June 2020 |
DOI:10.1093/oso/9780197507667.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Bernhard Zipfel, editor
University Curator of Fossil and Rock Collections, Evolutionary Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand
Brian G. Richmond, editor
Senior Data Scientist for Product Intelligence, Aura Health
Carol V. Ward, editor
Curators' Distinguished Professor, University of Missouri School of Medicine
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