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Abstract
<p class="first" id="d2472965e50">The excavations at Sterkfontein Cave, Gauteng Province,
South Africa, have yielded
one of the largest collections of postcranial fossils of any hominin site. These fossils
remain relatively unstudied, and few published comprehensively, despite the enormous
potential of these fossils for answering questions about
<i>Australopithecus africanus</i> paleobiology, early hominin variation, and early
human evolution. This volume presents
photographs, anatomical descriptions and analyses for all Sterkfontein hominin postcranial
fossils that were available for study in 2009, when an international workshop of experts
was convened at University of the Witwatersrand to discuss and study this material.
The chapters in this volume represent a foundation for further investigations with
which to interpret these and other fossils from Sterkfontein, and from all over Africa,
that will be recovered in years to come.
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