#AustralopithecusAfricanus #RobertBroom

Results from an Australopithecus africanus dental enamel fragment confirm the potential of palaeoproteomics for South African Plio-Pleistocene fossil sites The southern African Late Pliocene to Early Pleistocene hominin record is abundant and exhibits a high taxonomic diversity with three genera represented: Australopithecus, Paranthropus and Homo. Homin...

Results from an #Australopithecusafricanus dental enamel fragment confirm the potential of #palaeoproteomics for South African Plio-Pleistocene fossil sites
#SouthAfrica
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#AustralopithecusAfricanus

#AustralopithecusAfricanus

This week in history: November 18-24 Myanmar-Thailand border clash; UN recognizes Palestinian “right of return”;British Labour government nationalizes iron and steel industry; first Australopithecus skull discovered.

#archaeology #anthropology

100 years ago

Australian #anthropologist #RaymondDart at the #UniversityoftheWitwatersrand identified a skull discovered at a limestone quarry in #Taung, #SouthAfrica as the first specimen of the #hominin species #Australopithecusafricanus

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