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The large mammal fossil fauna of the Cradle of Humankind, South Africa: a review [PDF]

PeerJ
South Africa’s Cradle of Humankind UNESCO World Heritage Site has remained the single richest source of hominin fossils for over ninety years. While its hominin specimens have been the subject of extensive research, the same is not true for its abundant ...
Megan Malherbe, Robyn Pickering, Deano Stynder, Martin Haeusler   +3 more
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Homortomyces gen. nov., a new dothidealean pycnidial fungus from the Cradle of Humankind [PDF]

IMA Fungus, 2012
Homortomyces is introduced as a new coelomycetous genus associated with leaf spots on Combretum erythrophyllum trees growing near and around the Sterkfontein caves, Maropeng, South Africa. Based on its transversely septate, brown conidia, the presence of
Michael J. Wingfield, Lorenzo Lombard, Johannes Z. Groenewald, Pedro W. Crous   +3 more
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Dental data challenge the ubiquitous presence of Homo in the Cradle of Humankind. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2022
The origins of Homo , as well as the diversity and biogeographic distribution of early Homo species, remain critical outstanding issues in paleoanthropology. Debates about the recognition of early Homo , first appearance dates, and taxonomic diversity within
Zanolli C, Davies TW, Joannes-Boyau R, Beaudet A, Bruxelles L, de Beer F, Hoffman J, Hublin JJ, Jakata K, Kgasi L, Kullmer O, Macchiarelli R, Pan L, Schrenk F, Santos F, Stratford D, Tawane M, Thackeray F, Xing S, Zipfel B, Skinner MM.   +20 more
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Animals evoking fear in the Cradle of Humankind: snakes, scorpions, and large carnivores. [PDF]

Naturwissenschaften, 2023
AbstractTheories explain the presence of fears and specific phobias elicited by animals in contemporary WEIRD (Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic) populations by their evolutionary past in Africa. Nevertheless, empirical data about fears of animals in the Cradle of Humankind are still fragmentary.
Frynta D, Elmi HSA, Rexová K, Janovcová M, Rudolfová V, Štolhoferová I, Král D, Sommer D, Berti DA, Frýdlová P.   +9 more
europepmc   +3 more sources

Multimodal spatial mapping and visualisation of Dinaledi Chamber and Rising Star Cave [PDF]

South African Journal of Science, 2016
The Dinaledi Chamber of the Rising Star Cave has yielded 1550 identifiable fossil elements – representing the largest single collection of fossil hominin material found on the African continent to date.
Ashley Kruger, Patrick Randolph-Quinney, Marina Elliott   +2 more
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A Case Report on a Human Bite Contact with a Rabid Honey Badger Mellivora capensis (Kromdraai Area, Cradle of Humankind, South Africa) [PDF]

Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2023
In South Africa, rabies cycles are sustained by both domestic and wildlife host species. Despite the fact that the majority of human rabies cases are associated with dog bite exposures, wildlife species can potentially transmit rabies virus (RABV ...
Debrah Kgwana Mohale, Ernest Ngoepe, Munangatire Mparamoto, Lucille Blumberg, Claude Taurai Sabeta   +4 more
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An initial report of circa 241,000- to 335,000-year-old rock engravings and their relation to Homo naledi in the Rising Star cave system, South Africa [PDF]

eLife
The production of painted, etched, or engraved designs on cave walls or other surfaces is recognized as a major cognitive step in human evolution.
Lee R Berger, John Hawks, Agustín Fuentes, Dirk Van Rooyen, Mathabela Tsikoane, Maropeng Mpete, Samuel Nkwe, Keneiloe Molopyane   +7 more
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Combined uranium-series and electron spin resonance dating from the Pliocene fossil sites of Aves and Milo’s palaeocaves, Bolt’s Farm, Cradle of Humankind, South Africa [PDF]

PeerJ
Bolt’s Farm is the name given to a series of non-hominin bearing fossil sites that have often been suggested to be some of the oldest Pliocene sites in the Cradle of Humankind, South Africa.
Wenjing Yu, Andy I. R. Herries, Tara Edwards, Brian Armstrong, Renaud Joannes-Boyau   +4 more
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Combining legacy data with new drone and DGPS mapping to identify the provenance of Plio-Pleistocene fossils from Bolt’s Farm, Cradle of Humankind (South Africa) [PDF]

PeerJ, 2019
Bolt’s Farm is a Plio-Pleistocene fossil site located within the southwestern corner of the UNESCO Hominid Fossil Sites of South Africa World Heritage Site.
Tara R. Edwards, Brian J. Armstrong, Jessie Birkett-Rees, Alexander F. Blackwood, Andy I.R. Herries, Paul Penzo-Kajewski, Robyn Pickering, Justin W. Adams   +7 more
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Visitors’ views of human origins after visiting the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site

South African Journal of Science, 2016
The Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site, west of Johannesburg, was designated in 1999 because of its importance as a locality where numerous hominid fossils have been discovered since the 1930s.
Anthony Lelliott
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