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    found at Swartkrans, up to 1.5 million years ago. In addition, some of the earliest evidence of modified bone tools has also been found at Swartkrans and Sterkfontein...
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    Later in 1948, Robert Broom identified the first hominid remains from Swartkrans cave. In 1954, C. K. Brain began working at sites in the Cradle, including...
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    around the same area, now known as the Cradle of Humankind. In 1948, at Swartkrans Cave, in about the same vicinity as Kromdraai, Broom and South African...
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  • Puma. It was described based on fossils from the Early Pleistocene-aged Swartkrans site in South Africa. Puma incurva had previously been described in 1956...
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    one of the richest sites for hominin fossils in the world, as well as Swartkrans, Gondolin Cave, Kromdraai, Cooper's Cave and Malapa. Raymond Dart identified...
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    discovered at the nearby Swartkrans Cave in 1948. P. robustus was only definitively identified at Kromdraai and Swartkrans until around the turn of the...
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  • species have been found at multiple sites in the country, including the Swartkrans and Kromdraai. In comparison to the extant rock hyrax, P. transvaalensis...
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  • 1948), and a revision of Puma incurva (Ewer, 1956), the Early Pleistocene Swartkrans "leopard" (Carnivora, Felidae)". Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments...
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    1948), and a revision of Puma incurva (Ewer, 1956), the Early Pleistocene Swartkrans "leopard" (Carnivora, Felidae)". Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments...
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    Oldowan (section Swartkrans)
    of bone tools by hominins also producing Oldowan tools is known from Swartkrans, where a bone shaft with a polished point was discovered in Member (layer)...
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  • River valley, about 800 meters (0.50 miles; 2,600 feet) southwest of Swartkrans, part of the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site in South Africa....
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  • Plio-Pleistocene in South Africa, where fossils have been found in the Swartkrans dated to as recently as 1.5 million years ago. Proteles amplidentus was...
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    classification uncertainty. After the discovery of a robust skull in Swartkrans in 1948 (SK48), the name Meganthropus africanus was briefly applied. However...
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    Swartkrans was known as a place with bulk of australopithecine fossils and this individual would be the only evidence of Homo found in Swartkrans. List...
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  • Cape Floral Region Protected Areas Fossil Hominid Sites of Sterkfontein, Swartkrans, Kromdraai, and Environs iSimangaliso Wetland Park Mapungubwe Cultural...
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    (2016). "Earliest hominin cancer: 1.7-million-year-old osteosarcoma from Swartkrans Cave, South Africa". South African Journal of Science. 112 (7/8): 5. doi:10...
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    in South Africa, all of early Pleistocene age, including Skurweberg, Swartkrans (Member 1), and Sterkfontein (Member 4 or 5, but probably member 4). Dinopithecus...
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    largest scale." (1889, pp. 155–156). In 1949, the species was reported in Swartkrans Cave, South Africa, by South African paleoanthropologists Robert Broom...
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    1948), and a revision of Puma incurva (Ewer, 1956), the Early Pleistocene Swartkrans "leopard" (Carnivora, Felidae)". Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments...
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    Humankind official website UNESCO - Fossil Hominid Sites of Sterkfontein, Swartkrans, Kromdraai, and Environs Metadata of STS 5 on NESPOS[permanent dead link]...
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    fossils australopithecines were found in limestone caves Sterkfontein, Swartkrans, and Kromdaai. South African population figures for the 1904 Census. Sources:...
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    Muldersdrift area close to the town of Krugersdorp. The archaeological sites of Swartkrans and Kromdraai are in the same area. Sterkfontein is a South African National...
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    1948), and a revision of Puma incurva (Ewer, 1956), the Early Pleistocene Swartkrans "leopard" (Carnivora, Felidae)". Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments...
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    ISBN 978-1-4214-0093-8. Vrba, E.S. (1973). "Two species of Antidorcas (Sundevall) at Swartkrans (Mammalia: Bovidae)". Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 28 (15): 287–351...
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    Evidence shows controlled fire was used up to 1.5 million years ago at Swartkrans, South Africa. It is unknown which hominid species first used fire, as...
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    water. Makapania broomi has been found at Sterkfontein Members 4 and 5, Swartkrans Members 1-3, Gladysvale, Motsetse and possibly Coopers. It has been recovered...
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    Paranthropus robustus individual, SK 54, had been killed by a leopard at Swartkrans in Gauteng, South Africa approximately 1.8 million years ago. The SK 54...
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  • 1948), and a revision of Puma incurva (Ewer, 1956), the Early Pleistocene Swartkrans "leopard" (Carnivora, Felidae)". Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments...
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    (2016). "Earliest hominin cancer: 1.7-million-year-old osteosarcoma from Swartkrans Cave, South Africa". South African Journal of Science. 112 (7/8): 5. doi:10...
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    Plattenkalk Somervell County, Texas Stephen Formation Suwannee Limestone Swartkrans Tamiami Formation Taynton Limestone Formation Tennessee marble Torreya...
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