She regularly travels to Africa to sample fossilized teeth for her analysis. Wits University owns the Sterkfontein Caves and is the custodian of the Australopithecus fossils. Nitrogen isotope ...

Geochemist Tina Lüdecke stands next to "Little Foot", a remarkably well-preserved Australopithecus skeleton that was discovered in the Sterkfontein Caves and is considered to be the most complete ...

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.

Recent rainfall has boosted the water levels of the Vaal dam significantly, with plans to fill the dam with water from Sterkfontein dam no longer necessary. Over the past few months, as the ...

The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS), this morning began the process of releasing water from the country’s reserves at Sterkfontein Dam into the Vaal Dam. The release is necessitated by the ...

Jennifer Leichliter (PhD Anthropology, 2018), a post-doctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, latest research, "Australopithecus at Sterkfontein did not consume substantial ...

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 ...

Plans have already been made to release water from the Sterkfontein Dam should levels drop to 18%. However, the recent heavy rainfall in Gauteng and other provinces, including North West ...

Departmental spokesperson, Wisane Mavasa, said the dam has, for the past few months, been on a downward spiral with the department making plans to release water from the Sterkfontein Dam into the Vaal ...

An illustration of two of the seven molars from Australopithecus, unearthed in South Africa ...