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Matt Caruana

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Lecturer at the Palaeo-Research Institute, University of Johannesburg. Co-director of field research at Swartkrans Cave, Amanzi Springs and Wonderboom. Archaeologist | Earlier Stone Age | Beer enthusiast

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Just curious if there are fees for online attendance?

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There Will Be Blood

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Amazing! Im sure he'd appreciate you reaching out!

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Great to hear that Matt's paper and methods are useful to your exploration of quartzite outcrops! Have any flake scars been identified on outcrops there? Lotter be very excited to know!

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@ozarchaeomaglab.bsky.social thanks for following me back...

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#FossilFriday First articulating os coxae, femur, and tibia of a small adult Paranthropus robustus from Swartkrans Member 1, South Africa. This may have belonged to the shortest hominin known (1 m tall). buff.ly/BpbAni9

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Photos were kindly provided by Prof. Jason Heaton

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The lower limb belonged to a female P. robustus, who stood a meter tall and weighed around 27 kgs. She's the smallest adult hominin known in the fossil record, and was preyed upon by a carnivore before her bones accumulated in the cave system.

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First articulating os coxae, femur, and tibia of a small adult Paranthropus robustus from Member 1 (Hanging Remnant) of the Swartkrans Formation, South Africa Since paleontological work began there in 1948, Swartkrans (South Africa) has yielded hundreds of Early Pleistocene hominin fossils, currently attribu…

Glad to share a new publication presenting a nearly complete lower limb of Paranthropus robustus from Swartkrans Member 1 Hanging Remnant. A ton of hard work from the excavation, preparation and research teams went into this work!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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