Kromdraai: A Birthplace of Paranthropus in the Cradle of Humankind - A South African Heritage Site

This book is dedicated to the palaeontogical site of Kromdraai, one of the most well-known sites of the ‘Cradle of Humankind', the famous UNESCO World Heritage site located in the Gauteng province (South Africa). From 1938 to 1943, Robert Broom described important hominin fossil discoveries from Kro...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	José Braga
Format:	Book
Published:	African Sun Media 2017
Subjects:	Human beings > Origin Paranthropus > South Africa
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost

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Summary:	This book is dedicated to the palaeontogical site of Kromdraai, one of the most well-known sites of the ‘Cradle of Humankind', the famous UNESCO World Heritage site located in the Gauteng province (South Africa). From 1938 to 1943, Robert Broom described important hominin fossil discoveries from Kromdraai as belonging to a single individual and designated the type specimen as one of our distant relatives, called Paranthropus robustus