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 ...
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The large mammal fossil fauna of the Cradle of Humankind, South Africa: a review [PDF]
PeerJSouth 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 ...
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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
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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]
eLifeThe production of painted, etched, or engraved designs on cave walls or other surfaces is recognized as a major cognitive step in human evolution.
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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]
PeerJBolt’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.
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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.
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Results in earth sciencesSpeleothems are ubiquitous sedimentary features of caves in the Cradle of Humankind (locally referred to as the Cradle). Dominantly composed of calcite/remnant aragonite, these deposits are often interbedded with clastic sediments, which host a rich ...
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Open Quaternary, 2022 Since it was established that the early hominins of the Cradle of Humankind in South Africa ate 13C-enriched foods that may have included sedges with C4 photosynthetic pathways, much work has focused on the reconstruction of hominin dietary ecologies in ...
Marlize Lombard
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Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d’Anthropologie de Paris, 2022 Interpreting and understanding morphological variation within the fossil hominin record represent one of the major challenges in palaeoanthropology.
Amélie Beaudet
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Culture & History Digital Journal, 2023 The German anatomist and palaeontologist Hermann Klaatsch arrived in Australia to study the aborigines in March 1904. The aim of his trip was to continue his research on the phylogenetic history of humanity and test his colleague at the University of ...
Francisco Pelayo
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