Hominin Postcranial Remains from Sterkfontein, South Africa, 1936-1995

The 1924 African discovery of an early hominin child''s skull, referred to as Australopithecus africanus by Raymond Dart, was a major event in the history of paleoanthropology. This provided the first evidence of early hominins in Africa and overturned conventional ideas about human evolution. Subsequent discoveries of A. africanus fossils, notably from cave deposits at Sterkfontein, yielded the f...