New Hominin fossils from Malapa: The unveiling of Australopithecus Sediba
| dc.contributor.author | Morris, Alan G | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-02-05T13:48:28Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-02-05T13:48:28Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2010 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2016-01-15T07:07:15Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | The odds of archaeologists finding a nearly complete skeleton went up dramatically when humans began to bury their dead in formal graves. But this began only about 50 000 years ago, a relatively recent date in terms of human origins and only a small portion of the four-million-year history of our ancestral line. Before formal burial, the physical remains of our ancestors were processed by the environment in the same way as any other dead animal: chewed up by scavengers, dispersed in a river bed, on the open veld or in a cave, and finally preserved by fossilisation as isolated bones. Nearly complete skeletons in the fossil record of our earliest ancestors are as rare as the proverbial 'hen's teeth'. The discovery of the hominins from Malapa announced by Lee Berger has been just such a rare occurrence. | |
| dc.identifier | http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/sajs.v106i3/4.209 | |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Morris, A. G. (2010). New Hominin fossils from Malapa: The unveiling of Australopithecus Sediba. <i>South African Journal of Science</i>, http://hdl.handle.net/11427/27318 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Morris, Alan G "New Hominin fossils from Malapa: The unveiling of Australopithecus Sediba." <i>South African Journal of Science</i> (2010) http://hdl.handle.net/11427/27318 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Morris, A. G. (2010). New hominin fossils from Malapa: The unveiling of Australopithecus sediba. South African Journal of Science, 106(3-4), 1-2. | |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Journal Article AU - Morris, Alan G AB - The odds of archaeologists finding a nearly complete skeleton went up dramatically when humans began to bury their dead in formal graves. But this began only about 50 000 years ago, a relatively recent date in terms of human origins and only a small portion of the four-million-year history of our ancestral line. Before formal burial, the physical remains of our ancestors were processed by the environment in the same way as any other dead animal: chewed up by scavengers, dispersed in a river bed, on the open veld or in a cave, and finally preserved by fossilisation as isolated bones. Nearly complete skeletons in the fossil record of our earliest ancestors are as rare as the proverbial 'hen's teeth'. The discovery of the hominins from Malapa announced by Lee Berger has been just such a rare occurrence. DA - 2010 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town J1 - South African Journal of Science LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2010 T1 - New Hominin fossils from Malapa: The unveiling of Australopithecus Sediba TI - New Hominin fossils from Malapa: The unveiling of Australopithecus Sediba UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/27318 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/27318 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Morris AG. New Hominin fossils from Malapa: The unveiling of Australopithecus Sediba. South African Journal of Science. 2010; http://hdl.handle.net/11427/27318. | en_ZA |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.publisher.department | Department of Human Biology | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Health Sciences | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Cape Town | |
| dc.source | South African Journal of Science | |
| dc.source.uri | http://www.scielo.org.za/ | |
| dc.subject.other | Human Biology | |
| dc.subject.other | Archaeology | |
| dc.title | New Hominin fossils from Malapa: The unveiling of Australopithecus Sediba | |
| dc.type | Journal Article | |
| uct.type.filetype | Text | |
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