Kromdraai
Subtitle: a birthplace of Paranthropus in the Cradle of Humankind
By: editors, José Braga & John Francis Thackeray
Edition: First edition 2016.
Publisher: Sun Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: [Stellenbosch]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 113
ISBN-13: 9781928355069; 9781928355073
Subjects: Human evolution; Guidebooks; Fossil hominids; Fossil Animals; Human remains (Archaeology)
Description: "This book is dedicated to the palaeontological site of Kromdraai, one of the most well-known sites of the 'Cradle of Humankind', the famous UNESCO World Heritage site located in the Gauteng province (South Africa). From 1938 to 1943, Robert Broom described important hominin fossil discoveries from Kromdraai as belonging to a single individual and designated the type specimen as one of our distant relatives, called Paranthropus robustus."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Evolutionary, chrono-cultural and palaeoenvironmental backgrounds to the Kromdraai : a regional perspective; title: A computer-guided 3D multiscale reconstruction of the Kromdraai site; title: A revised stratigraphy of Kromdraai; title: The Kromdraai hominins revisited with an updated portrayal of differences between Australopithecus africanus and Paranthropus robustus; title: Some preliminary interpretations of the oldest faunal assemblage from Kromdraai; title: Kromdraai : a preliminary hypothetical evolutionary scenario.