Swartkrans

Spelunca Swartkrans est locus archaeologicus Africae Australis prope oppidum Krugersdorp, fere 30 chm a Iohannesburgo ad boream et occidentem versus distans. Pars est loci patrimonii mundialis Cradle of Humankind (scilicet "humani generis incunabulum"). Ibi reperta sunt vestigia hominum animaliumque inter annos fere 2 000 000 et 1 500 000 a.p. viventium.

 Bibliographia 
 C. K. Brain, The Hunters or the Hunted? An Introduction to African Cave Taphonomy. Chicagi: University of Chicago Press, 1981. ISBN 978-0-226-07090-2
 C. K. Brain, A. Sillent, "Evidence from the Swartkrans cave for the earliest use of fire" in Nature vol. 336 (1988) pp. 464-466 situs venalis
 J. Lesnik, J. F. Thackeray, "The efficiency of stone and bone tools for opening termite mounds: implications for hominid tool use at Swartkrans" in South African Journal of Science vol. 103 (2007) pp. 354–356
 Travis Rayne Pickering et al., "New hominid fossils from Member 1 of the Swartkrans formation, South Africa" in Journal of Human Evolution vol. 62 (2012) pp. 618-628
 Travis Rayne Pickering, Manuel Dominquez-Rodrigo, Charles P. Egeland, C. K. Brain, "Carcass Foraging by Early Hominids at Swartkrans Cave (South Africa): A New Investigation of the Zooarchaeology and the Taphonomy of Member 3" in Kathy Schick and Nicholas Toth, edd., Breathing Life into Fossils: Taphonomic Studies in Honor of C. K. (Bob) Brain (Gosport Indianae: Stone Age Institute Press, 2007) p. 233 ff.

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 Nexus externi 

 "Fossil Hominid Sites of South Africa" apud UNESCO

Categoria:Loci archaeologici Africae Australis
Categoria:Loci habitati palaeolithici
Categoria:Loci hereditatis mundialis in Africa
Categoria:Cavernae