Swartkrans is a location in South Africa, around 20 miles from Johannesburg. The Republic of South Africa (also known by other official names) is a country located at the southern tip of the continent of Africa Johannesburg ( Pronounced /jō-hān'ĭs-bûrg'/ is the largest city in South Africa.
Swartkrans is a farm near to Sterkfontein, notable for being extremely rich in archaeological material, particularly hominid remains. Sterkfontein ( Afrikaans for Strong Spring) is a set of Limestone Caves of special interest to paleo - Anthropologists Archaeology, archeology, or archæology (from Greek grc ἀρχαιολογία archaiologia – grc ἀρχαῖος archaīos It was purchased by the University of the Witwatersrand in 1968. The University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg is a leading South African University situated in the northern areas of central Johannesburg. Year 1968 ( MCMLXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The oldest deposits present at the site are believed to be between 1. 8 and 2 million years old.
Fossils discovered in the limestone of Swartkrans include Telanthropus capensis (a variety of Homo erectus), Paranthropus and Homo habilis
Noted paleontologist Robert Broom was a frequent digger. Limestone is a Sedimentary rock composed largely of the Mineral Calcite ( Calcium carbonate: CaCO3 Telanthropus capensis is the name given by the archaeologist John T Homo erectus ( Latin: "upright man" is an extinct species of the genus Homo, believed to have been the first hominin The robust australopithecines, members of the Extinct Hominin genus Paranthropus (Greek para "beside" Greek anthropos "human" Homo habilis (ˈhoʊmoʊ ˈhæbəlɪs ("handy man" "skillful person" is a Species of the genus Homo, which lived Palaeontology redirects here For the Scientific journal, see Palaeontology (journal. Professor Robert Broom ( November 30, 1866, Paisley – April 6, 1951) was He was followed by Charles Kimberlin Brain (C. Charles Kimberlin Brain ( C K 'Bob' Brain) born in Southern Rhodesia (modern Zimbabwe) in 1931 is an eminent South African Paleontologist K. 'Bob' Brain), whose excavations at the site inspired his book The Hunters or the Hunted? in which he demonstrated that instead of being bloodthirsty killer apes, the hominin fossils found at the site were themselves victims of predation by big cats. Hominini is the tribe of Homininae that comprises humans ( Homo) Chimpanzees ( Pan) and their Extinct ancestors
Swartkrans is part of the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site. The Cradle of Humankind is a World Heritage Site first named by UNESCO in 1999 about 50 Kilometres northwest of Johannesburg, South A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a site (such as a Forest, Mountain, Lake, Desert, Monument, Building, complex Use of fire at Swartkrans has been dated to up to 1 million years BP, and is believed to be the second oldest evidence of fire use known in the world. Fire is the heat and light energy released during a Chemical reaction, in particular a combustion reaction. Before Present (BP years are a time scale used in Archaeology, Geology, and other scientific disciplines to specify when events in the past occurred
References
- The Hunters or the Hunted?: An Introduction to African Cave Taphonomy. C. K. Brain. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981. Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States. The University of Chicago Press is the largest University press in the United States Paperback: ISBN 0-226-07090-5, ISBN 978-0-226-07090-2.
See also
External links
- University of Chicago Press page for The Hunters or the Hunted?
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