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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Makapansgat"”.
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The Makapansgat Hominins: A Descriptive and Comparative Morphological Study
… cranial, mandibular, and dental specimens from Makapansgat and to compare the assemblage to other South African early hominin samples. The fossils examined here include previously undescribed fossils from the fossiliferous ex-situ breccia piles of the Makapansgat Limeworks. Data analyses …
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Revisiting the palaeoenvironments of the South African hominid-bearing Plio Pleistocene sites : new isotopic evidence from Sterkfontein
… 5 are reported to supplement existing data from Makapansgat and Swartkrans in order to examine the changing environment from approximately 3 to 1.4 million years ago (Ma).
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Dietary ecology and niche separation among three closely related species (Parapapio jonesi, Pp. whitei and Pp. broomi) of South African Plio-Pleistocene Cercopithecoidea from Makapansgat Limeworks site
… are represented in assemblages from the Makapansgat Limeworks hominin locality in South Africa. The presence of such a variety of primate taxa in a single ecosystem at the same time suggests a certain degree of ecological and/or dietary differentiation between taxa. This research explores …
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Dental Microwear Textures of Paranthropus robustus from Kromdraai, Drimolen, and an Enlarged Sample from Swartkrans: Ecological and Intraspecific Variation
… the Sterkfontein sample and also incorporates Makapansgat. </p> <p>White-light confocal microscopy in conjunction with scale-sensitive fractal analysis quantifies microwear texture variables. In addition, ISO parameters are also incorporated to further elaborate on specific attributes of …