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 ...

Ancient Humans Had a ‘Herbivorous’ Diet, Nitrogen in Fossils Revealed a Lack of Meat Consumption Recent examinations imply ...

Scientists from the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) and the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Germany published ...

Chemicals in the tooth enamel of Australopithecus suggest the early human ancestors ate very little meat, dining on vegetation instead.

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.

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 ...

Australopithecus, our distant ancestors, primarily fed on plants. A recent study, published in Science, reveals that contrary ...

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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 ...

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 ...