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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"hominid"”.
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Uranium-Lead dating of hominid fossil sites in South Africa
Discoveries of hominid, or apeman, fossils in the twentieth century have brought human evolution into the scientific spotlight. It is important that ages are assigned to such hominids so that their place in human evolution can be established. South African hominids are found in cave sites that are …
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Taphonomic and Faunal Parameters From Pleistocene Hominid Site Assemblages in China
China possesses numerous hominid bearing sites spanning the Pleistocene. As such, China provides an excellent opportunity to examine hominid adaptations to extra-African environments. Understanding the context of Chinese hominid finds has taken on a special importance in view of the current …
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The legend of gesture : mapping humans’ use and understanding of hominid gestures
In the search for human uniqueness, language stands out due to its seemingly infinite flexibility that underpins our ability for complex social interactions and large-scale cooperation. Yet, if language is such an adaptive trait, why is it unique to our species? One prominent theory suggests that …
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Early hominid habitat preferences in East Africa: Stable isotopic evidence from paleosols
… information on the site-specific context of hominid foraging behavior, and understand early hominid land-use patterns and habitat preference, the synchronic variation of hominid activity preserved in archaeological sites is examined in a diversity of floral microhabitats across two Early …
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The Evolution of the Glenoid Region in the Hominidae: Implications for Hominid Phylogenetics
… than Homo. Chimpanzees and the earliest hominid taxa exhibit similar glenoid region morphologies and are readily distinguishable from later australopithecines and Homo. The Ardipithecus and Australopithecus anamensis fossils can easily be incorporated in most existing phylogenetic …
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Climate and habitat reconstruction of hominid sites in northern China with paleosol stable isotopes
The environment of early hominids in the Loess Plateau region of China is a highly debated subject. Interpretations of past habitats and climates derived from fossil faunal and floral assemblages, paleosols, and geochemistry are often contradictory. In order to understand paleoenvironments and the …
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Revisiting the palaeoenvironments of the South African hominid-bearing Plio Pleistocene sites : new isotopic evidence from Sterkfontein
This thesis offers a revised palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of South African PlioPleistocene sites based on δ¹³C and δ¹⁸O isotopes extracted from enamel of fossil fauna. New isotopic results from Sterkfontein Members 4 and 5 are reported to supplement existing data from Makapansgat and …
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Reconstructing Soft Tissues of Plio-Pleistocene Hominids using Comparative Anatomy of Modern Humans & Great Apes
… the discovery of a new species of ancient hominid, such as those belonging to the Australopithecus or Paranthropus genera. Facial approximations provide a 3D model for these species and provides another means for scientists to understand the morphological differences between and variations …
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A taphonomic investigation of aquatic reptiles (Crocodylus, Trionyx, and Pelusios) at Lake Turkana, Kenya: Significance for early hominid ecology at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
… Trionyx, their potential contribution to early hominid diet, and significance for palaeoenvironmental reconstructions.
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An actualistic butchery study in South Africa and its implications for reconstructing hominid strategies of carcass acquisition and butchery in the upper pleistocene and plio-pleistocene
… Africa and its implications for reconstructing hominid strategies of carcass acquisition and butchery in the upper pleistocene and plio-pleistocene
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Landscapes of the apes: modelling landscape use of chimpanzees and early hominins across an environmental gradient.
… and referential modelling to explore hominid (i.e. chimpanzee, Ardipithecus ramidus and Australopithecus anamensis/ afarensis) landscape use along an environmental gradient from forests to savannahs to determine their adaptability to change. Based on literature review, this thesis …
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Global Microsatellite Content Potentially Distinguishes Humans, Primates, Animals, and Plants
… of one species versus another. For instance, hominid-specific microsatellite motifs were identified despite alignment of the human reference, Celera, and Venter genomic sequences indicating substantial variation (30-50%) among individuals. Differential microsatellite motifs were mainly …
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A background investigation into the feasibility of heavy stable isotopes (87Sr/86Sr) as source tracers of early hominids
… to characterize the habitat choices of early hominids. The basis for this approach is that different geological substrata may have a characteristic range of ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr ratios in the available soil strontium pool. This range may be represented in the plants growing on these various geologies and …
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Development of an integrated information system for archaeological heritage documentation
… of the documentation of the 3.6 million-year-old hominid footprint trackway in Laetoli, Tanzania, to address the need for an adequate scientific method to acquire, manage and visualise spatial data for the re-creation of archaeological heritage sites in a three-dimensional virtual world. The …
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Interactive visualisation using 3D graphics : an archaeological case study
… in the survey of the 3.6 million year old hominid footprints in Tanzania. The survey was required for the documentation and study of the footprints. In order to facilitate this in 3D graphics, software packages that allowed user interactive tools to be included in the display had to be …
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The use of faunal evidence to reconstruct site history and Hoedjiespunt 1 (HDP1), Western Cape
… African sites to yield well provenanced MSA hominid fossils, lending special significance to this site. The vertebrate fauna from this location, which consists of a palaeontological and an archaeological site, is described and analysed using both the taphonomic and controlled comparison …
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Late Cenozoic palynological studies on Java
… Pliocene). The Trinil site is well known for its hominid fossils.The pollen flora at each site is fully described and illustrated while the pollen record at each location is used to reconstruct their vegetational, environmental and climatic histories. An attempt has also been made to determine …
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