Ancient Humans Had a ‘Herbivorous’ Diet, Nitrogen in Fossils Revealed a Lack of Meat Consumption Recent examinations imply that meat possibly did not have as big of a role in human evolution, as ...

The Sterkfontein excavation site, which exposes the ancient deposits that once formed underground and contain Australopithecus fossils. The fossil-bearing red sediments clearly contrast with the ...

The researchers conducted an analysis of the nitrogen and carbon isotopes bound to the tooth enamel of 43 fossilized teeth, all of which had been found in South Africa's Sterkfontein caves.

To get a better look at diets in the deep past, Lüdecke and her colleagues drilled samples out of the teeth of 43 roughly 3.5-million-year-old fossilized mammals from the Sterkfontein caves in ...

A LARGE monograph on the South African Australopithecines is being prepared, and is well advanced; but as it cannot possibly be published, at the earliest, for some months, it may be well to give ...