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Animals evoking fear in the Cradle of Humankind: snakes, scorpions, and large carnivores. [PDF]

Naturwissenschaften, 2023
Frynta D, Elmi HSA, Rexová K, Janovcová M, Rudolfová V, Štolhoferová I, Král D, Sommer D, Berti DA, Frýdlová P.   +9 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
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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Determining the sensitivity of Sentinel-2 bands to optically and non-optically active water quality parameters under high- and low-flow conditions in the cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site, South Africa

Geocarto International
Access to clean water is a global challenge, particularly in the Global South, where scarcity and pollution threaten human and ecosystem health. Traditional water quality monitoring is limited in spatial and temporal coverage, while satellite remote ...
Sinesipho Ngamile, Mahlatse Kganyago, Sabelo Madonsela, Vuyelwa Mvandaba   +3 more
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Characterising the spatio-temporal patterns of water quality parameters in the cradle of humankind world heritage site using Sentinel-2 and random forest regressor

Frontiers in Remote Sensing
IntroductionWater quality assessment is essential for monitoring and managing freshwater resources, particularly in ecologically and culturally significant areas like the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site (COHWHS).
Sinesipho Ngamile, Sinesipho Ngamile, Mahlatse Kganyago, Sabelo Madonsela, Sabelo Madonsela, Vuyelwa Mvandaba   +5 more
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A new species of Lovebird (Aves, Psittaculidae, Agapornis) from the Plio-Pleistocene of the Cradle of Humankind (Gauteng, South Africa) [PDF]

A new parrot species of the genus Agapornis (Aves, Psittaculidae), namely Agapornis longipes nov. sp., is described from the Plio-Pleistocene of Kromdraai, Cooper's Cave, and Swartkrans in the Cradle of Humankind, South Africa.
Steininger, Christine, Braga, José, Zipfel, Bernhard, Pavia, Marco, Val, Aurore, Delfino, Massimo, Kgasi, Lazarus, Manegold, Albrecht   +7 more
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Enforced linguistic conversion: translation of the Macedonian toponyms in the 20th century

Slavia Meridionalis, 2015
Enforced linguistic conversion: translation of the Macedonian toponyms in the 20th century The article deals with the issue of forced conversion of Macedonian toponyms, considered as a form of linguistic and cultural dislocation or luxation (the Latin ...
Katica Kulavkova
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Public-private partnerships for tourism infrastructure development: Evidence from the Cradle of Humankind, South Africa [PDF]

, 2016
Public-private partnerships (PPP) are important vehicles for infrastructure development in the global South and increasingly applied in tourism. South Africa has extensively adopted the PPP approach for infrastructure develop-ment across several ...
Rogerson, Christian M.
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Central Africa: prospects for a cultural emergency

Index Comunicación, 2014
In recent decades, biennials and festivals have multiplied across Africa, proof of the growing dynamism of the cultural sector, to which private actors and governments take a special interest, for several reasons.
Jean-Arsène Yao
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Bone Tool Texture Analysis and the Role of Termites in the Diet of South African Hominids.

PaleoAnthropology, 2011
The Swartkrans cave, part of the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site in South Africa, has yielded bone tool artifacts together with an abundance of hominid fossils attributed to Australopithecus (Paranthropus) robustusand some fossils attributed to ...
Julie J. Lesnik
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3D techniques and fossil identification: An elephant shrew hemi-mandible from the Malapa site

South African Journal of Science, 2011
Conventional methods for extracting fossilised bones from calcified clastic sediments, using air drills or chemical preparations, can damage specimens to the point of rendering them unidentifiable.
Aurore Val, Kristian Carlson, Christine Steininger, Job Kibii, Cecil Churms, Brian Kuhn, Lee Berger   +6 more
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