Kromdraai Ifas Research The kromdraai project, lead by josé braga and francis thackeray, investigates the earliest known fossiliferous infilling of a previously unexplored area of the kromdraai underground cave system. Dig into the origins of humans at the unesco world heritage site of kromdraai in south africa! journey into this fossil rich site to unravel the environmental and ecological conditions that shaped the emergence of early human occupation in africa approximately 2 million years ago.
South Africa Kromdraai Human Origins Institute For Field Research Kromdraai is noteworthy because it features among the three southern african early hominin bearing sites considered to represent distinct temporal periods within the same stratigraphic succession. Since we report here, for the first time, the occurrence of fossil hominins in members 1 and 2, our discoveries stretch the time span of hominin evolution at kromdraai and contribute to a better. Dig into the origins of humans at the unesco world heritage site of kromdraai in south africa! journey into this fossil rich site to unravel the environmental and ecological conditions that shaped the emergence of early human occupation in africa approximately 2 million years ago. By focusing our attention on relevant information recorded in the fossiliferous sediments at the site of kromdraai (gauteng province, south africa) from its early and previously unrealized stratigraphic record, the kromdraai research project aims to address this issue.
Uf Ifas Research Ifas Advancement Office University Of Florida Dig into the origins of humans at the unesco world heritage site of kromdraai in south africa! journey into this fossil rich site to unravel the environmental and ecological conditions that shaped the emergence of early human occupation in africa approximately 2 million years ago. By focusing our attention on relevant information recorded in the fossiliferous sediments at the site of kromdraai (gauteng province, south africa) from its early and previously unrealized stratigraphic record, the kromdraai research project aims to address this issue. We computed a 3d model of the kromdraai site for which the geometry of the breccias was very well recorded and reconstructed in 3d. this model is of interest for various fields of research (e.g., geomorphology, archaeology). Over the next three years, pending permit approval, our research will focus on investigating the contact surfaces between units p and o, as well as between “block kw 11000” and unit p, to evaluate their paleoenvironmental and archaeological significance. In 2008 a new research program (funded by the french ministry of foreign affairs and the national research foundation) was launched. several scales of study are being conducted, ranging from geomorphology and surface formations of the area to thin sections and geochemical analysis. This book is dedicated to the palaeontogical site of kromdraai, one of the most well known sites of the ‘cradle of humankind’, the famous unesco world heritage site located in the gauteng province (south africa).
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