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Drimolen permit application 2019-2022

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Herewith is the application for the renewal of the Drimolen Fossil Hominin Site in the Cradle of Humankind. The previous Drimolen Permit (80/12/02/024/51) expired in June 2018. This permit is for the next three years of dedicated excavation, international field schools and research on this critical site. The site is in Gauteng.

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Our recent work at the site has begun to change the backlog and non-provenienced material with the publication of some of the legacy non-hominin fossil material (Adams et al., 2016). The legacy hominin material, which consists mostly of isolated dental remains, has been partly analysed as part of an MA at La Trobe University completed in 2016 (Leece, 2016). Ms Leece has continued this work as a PhD student at La Trobe and she is about to submit her first paper based on the Drimolen hominin legacy material, and a second is in draft. As well as working on the Drimolen hominin legacy collections we currently have two other papers in review on two newly discovered hominin crania, the first discovered in 2015, and the second discovered in 2018. A second PhD student, Jesse Martin, has been working on the cranial collections from Drimolen since late 2017. A third La Trobe student, Dr Rhiannon Stammers, also studied a series of potential bone tools previously excavated from Drimolen as part of her now passed PhD (Stammers, 2018). She is currently drafting her first paper on the bone tools from Drimolen, but has also published a paper with collaborator Dr Matt Caruana (University of the Witwatersrand) on the small collection of stone tools that have been recovered from the site since the 90s (Stammers et al., 2018). Our plan for the site includes the following: 1) Full Resolution on the Site Stratigraphy and Geochronology 2) Further excavation of the Drimolen Makondo (DMK) 3) Site stabilisation and excavation of in-situ deposits in Drimolen Main Quarry.

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Wednesday, December 5, 2018 - 11:56

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13293

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Adams, J.W., Rovinsky, D.S., Herries, A.I. and Menter, C.G., 2016. Macromammalian faunas, biochronology and palaeoecology of the early Pleistocene Main Quarry hominin-bearing deposits of the Drimolen Palaeocave System, South Africa. PeerJ, 4, p.e1941.
Herries, A.I., Murszewski, A., Pickering, R., Mallett, T., Joannes-Boyau, R., Armstrong, B., Adams, J.W., Baker, S., Blackwood, A.F., Penzo-Kajewski, P. and Kappen, P., 2018. Geoarchaeological and 3D visualisation approaches for contextualising in-situ fossil bearing palaeokarst in South Africa: A case study from the ∼2.61 Ma Drimolen Makondo. Quaternary International, 483, pp.90-110.
Leece, A.B., 2016. Palaeodemographic studies at the hominin-bearing palaeocave site of Drimolen, South Africa. Masters Dissertation, La Trobe University.
Murszewski, A., Edwards, T.R., Cruden, A.R., Armstrong, B., Boschian, G., and Herries, A.I.R. 2018. Regional geological formation and speleogenesis of the Fossil Hominid Sites of South Africa: UNESCO World Heritage Area. Earth-Science Reviews. In press.
Stammers, R.C., Caruana, M.V. and Herries, A.I., 2018. The first bone tools from Kromdraai and stone tools from Drimolen, and the place of bone tools in the South African Earlier Stone Age. Quaternary International. In press.
Rovinsky, D.S., Herries, A.I., Menter, C.G. and Adams, J.W., 2015. First description of in situ primate and faunal remains from the Plio-Pleistocene Drimolen Makondo palaeocave infill, Gauteng, South Africa. Palaeontologia Electronica, 18(2), pp.1-21.
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