Matt Caruana
@mattyc79.bsky.social
Lecturer at the Palaeo-Research Institute, University of Johannesburg. Co-director of field research at Swartkrans Cave, Amanzi Springs and Wonderboom.
Archaeologist | Earlier Stone Age | Beer enthusiast
Archaeologist | Earlier Stone Age | Beer enthusiast
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March 8, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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#FossilFriday First articulating os coxae, femur, and tibia of a small adult Paranthropus robustus from Swartkrans Member 1, South Africa. This may have belonged to the shortest hominin known (1 m tall). buff.ly/BpbAni9
March 7, 2025 at 7:20 AM
#FossilFriday First articulating os coxae, femur, and tibia of a small adult Paranthropus robustus from Swartkrans Member 1, South Africa. This may have belonged to the shortest hominin known (1 m tall). buff.ly/BpbAni9
Glad to share a new publication presenting a nearly complete lower limb of Paranthropus robustus from Swartkrans Member 1 Hanging Remnant. A ton of hard work from the excavation, preparation and research teams went into this work!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
First articulating os coxae, femur, and tibia of a small adult Paranthropus robustus from Member 1 (Hanging Remnant) of the Swartkrans Formation, South Africa
Since paleontological work began there in 1948, Swartkrans (South Africa) has yielded hundreds of Early Pleistocene hominin fossils, currently attribu…
www.sciencedirect.com
March 6, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Glad to share a new publication presenting a nearly complete lower limb of Paranthropus robustus from Swartkrans Member 1 Hanging Remnant. A ton of hard work from the excavation, preparation and research teams went into this work!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...