Link: South African Daily Maverick reports on Little Foot
Elsabe Brits has written a long article covering the recent releases of preprints and papers about the StW 573 “Little Foot” skeleton: “SA’s most complete hu...
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Australopithecus prometheus: is it real?
Lee Berger and I have a new article out in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology that looks at what may be the biggest issue in hominin taxonomy for ...
A view of the Little Foot skeleton
Paleoanthropologist Ron Clarke and the University of the Witwatersrand made a big splash last week with the public unveiling of one of the most important hom...
Link: A short Sterkfontein history on its 80th anniversary
The discovery of hominin fossils at Sterkfontein, South Africa, was eighty years ago this year. Recognizing the occasion, Jason Heaton, Travis Pickering and ...
Skeletal remains from Milner Hall, a new excavation area in Sterkfontein Caves
This month, the Journal of Human Evolution has published a short paper from Dominic Stratford and colleagues describing two hominin fossils from Milner Hall,...
Is Little Foot really 3.67 million years old?
Darryl Granger and colleagues report in Nature this week on the date of the StW 573 specimen, commonly known as “Little Foot”, from Sterkfontein, South Afric...
Photo: Sterkfontein
This morning I went on an awesome visit to Sterkfontein, guided through the subterranean parts of the excavations by site manager Dominic Stratford. What an ...
Meet Australopithecus africanus
This station has several casts of remains attributed to the species, Australopithecus africanus. This was the first australopithecine species discovered, and...
A look at Little Foot
Along with the papers on the Malapa hominins, Science this week published a news story by Michael Balter that is a profile of Ron Clarke and his work on the ...
Through the early Homo archives
I’ve enabled the search function for the site, which you’ll find at top right on each page of the site. The search index is still rebuilding, and as I write ...
A Sterkfontein visit
After this week’s description of the new public accessibility of the Dmanisi site, a reader sends a link to a tour of Sterkfontein by The Guardian’s David Sm...
A virtual walk into the past
Via a reader:
Sterkfontein news
My Google alerts have been going off the last couple of days about Sterkfontein. I know nothing about any new discoveries, but the Times (South Africa) has r...
(Best) forgotten tales of paleoanthropology, 1
The New York Times has given over free access to its e-archives, normally behind the "Times Select" paywall. It is a great opportunity to institute a new se...
"Spacecraft all over the Pliocene"
Rex Dalton has a great two-page article in Nature about the bush vs. ladder dispute. It keys off of the Middle Awash Australopithecus anamensis article by Wh...
A ladder, not a bush?
Tim White and colleagues (2006) report on new fossils from Aramis and a new site, Asa Issie, with estimated dates between 4.1 and 4.2 million years ago.
Tobias memoir published
Speaking of Phillip Tobias, The Sunday Independent is carrying a long interview of Tobias discussing his autobiography. Google says the site is subscription...
New Sterkfontein visitors' center opening
Several articles in the South African press have covered the opening of the new visitors' center at the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage site. The one wit...
More microwear from South African australopithecines
Scott and colleagues (2005) examined dental microwear in some Swartkrans (A. robustus) and Sterkfontein (A. africanus) specimens. The interesting part of th...
Sterkfontein variability
In a 2002 paper on cranial remains from Sterkfontein, Lockwood and Tobias write the following in a section called "Are there multiple hominin species from S...
Sterkfontein Member 2 paleoenvironment
Pickering and colleagues (2004) examine the fauna from Sterkfontein Member 2, coming to the following conclusion:
Age of hominids from Sterkfontein
A recent spate of articles has carried on a debate about the age of the Sterkfontein hominids. Sterkfontein is a complicated site, including several distinc...
Chemistry and early hominid diets
The chemical analysis of bones to interpret diet rests on the observation that different foods vary in the composition of different chemical elements or iso...
The Flores find: more thoughts on Liang Bua
Note: I wrote this post in 2005. More recent posts have up to date information about Homo floresiensis and the Liang Bua stone artifacts.