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Swartkrans Palaeo-anthropological Research Project

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ProposalDescription: 

Continued excavations and research of the archaeological and palaeo-anthropological deposits of Swartkrans Cave, Gauteng Province.

Expanded_Motivation: 

See research proposal section

ApplicationDate: 

Tuesday, May 24, 2016 - 23:07

CaseID: 

9624

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ReferenceList: 

CitationReferenceType
Sutton, M.B., Pickering, T.R., Pickering, R., Brain, C.K., Clarke, R.J., Heaton, J.L. and Kuman, K. (2009). Newly discovered fossil- and artifact-bearing deposits, uranium-series ages and Plio-Pleistocene hominids at Swartkrans Cave, South Africa. Journal of Human Evolution 57, 688-696.
Pickering, T.R. and Brain, C.K. (2010). What taphonomically oriented research at Swartkrans Cave reveals about early hominid behavior. Journal of Taphonomy 8, 215-232.
Pickering, T.R., Heaton, J.L., Clarke, R.J. Sutton, M.B., Brain, C.K. and Kuman, K. (2012). New hominid fossils from Member 1 of the Swartkrans Formation, South Africa. Journal of Human Evolution 62, 618-628.
Gibbon, R., Pickering, T.R., Sutton, M.B., Heaton, J.L., Kuman, K., Clarke, R.J., Brain, C.K. and Granger, D.E. (2014). Cosmogenic nuclide burial dating of hominin-bearing Pleistocene cave deposits at Swartkrans, South Africa. Quaternary Geochronology 24, 10-15.
Pickering, T.R., Heaton, J.L., Sutton, M.B., Clarke, R.J., Kuman, K., Senjem, J.H. and Brain, C.K. (2016). New early Pleistocene hominin teeth from the Swartkrans Formation, South Africa. Journal of Human Evolution
 
 

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