The oldest complete skeleton of an Australopithecus in Africa (StW 573) |
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Authors: | Protsch von Zieten R Clarke R J |
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Institution: | Franz Weidenreich, Institute of Anthropology and Human Genetics, University of Frankfurt/M., Germany. PvZieten@anthropology.uni-frankfurt.de |
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Abstract: | Although 78 years have elapsed since the discovery at Taung of the Australopithecus africanus, and despite intensive fieldwork in East Africa which resulted in 32 years of non-stop excavation at Sterkfontein, there has not been a discovery to date of a reasonably intact skull and associated skeleton of an ape-man. The following report is an account of an extraordinary series of events that led to the discovery of a complete skeleton on an Australopithecus, and a preliminary assessment of the significance of the fossil, which is still 5 years after its discovery largely embedded in the Member 2 breccia of the Sterkfontein Caves near Krugersdorp, South Africa. |
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