Kromdraai (means crooked turn in afrikaans) is a fossil-bearing breccia-filled cave located about 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) east of the well-known South African hominid-bearing site of Sterkfontein and about 45 kilometres (28 mi) northwest of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is situated within the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site and is itself a South African National Heritage Site.[1]
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Kromdraai (means crooked turn in afrikaans) is a fossil-bearing breccia-filled cave located about 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) east of the well-known South African...
Cradle of Humankind Official Website UNESCO – Fossil Hominid Sites of Sterkfontein, Swartkrans, Kromdraai, and Environs Cradle of Humankind Map Palaeo...
This list of fossilsites is a worldwide list of localities known well for the presence of fossils. Some entries in this list are notable for a single...
fossils and dolomite caverns. A well known fossilsite is also named Kromdraai and it, along with such sites as Sterkfontein, Coopers, Swartkrans and Plovers...
(2024). Braga & Grine (2024) describe new fossil material of Paranthropus robustus from the Kromdraaifossilsite (South Africa), providing information on...
of Parliament Kaditshwene Cultural landscape Klasies River Caves Kromdraaifossilsite Lake Fundudzi Lilian Ngoyi Grave Liliesleaf Farm Madiba House (inside...
braincase, TM 1517, was discovered by schoolboy Gert Terblanche at the Kromdraaifossilsite, about 70 km (43 mi) southwest of Pretoria, South Africa. By 1988...
reduced. Fossils have been found at the Kromdraaisite and have been dated to around 2 million years ago. Avery, D. Margaret (2019). A Fossil History of...
1517, first remains of Paranthropus robustus, from Kromdraaifossilsite in South Africa. Maya site of Caracol is rediscovered. Luther Cressman, the first...
transition, inferred from the analysis of fossil birds from Member 2 of the hominin-bearing site of Kromdraai (Gauteng, South Africa)". Quaternary Science...
Safi in Morocco. It is noted for the hominin fossils that have been found there since the discovery of the site in 1960. Originally thought to be Neanderthals...
sp. (Mammalia: Carnivora), a new viverrid from the hominin-bearing site of Kromdraai (Gauteng, South Africa)". Comptes Rendus Palevol. 17 (6): 366–377...
media related to Shanidar Cave. List of fossilsites List of human evolution fossils List of Neanderthal fossils Neanderthals in Southwest Asia Paleopathology...
provenience from the sites of Kromdraai, Drimolen and Swartkrans (South Africa), based on data from new fossil material of P. robustus from Kromdraai and Drimolen...
examination showed that the purported fossil material was simply decayed remnants of a beehive. Some Mesolithic sites with cave art, tools, paintings, etc...
Archived from the original on 12 June 2016. Retrieved 17 August 2018. "Fossil Hominid Sites of South Africa". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Archived from the...
conservatively, 2 to 1) million years ago. It has been identified in Kromdraai, Swartkrans, Sterkfontein, Gondolin, Cooper's, and Drimolen Caves. Discovered...
Kromdraai and about 36 km Northwest of the City of Johannesburg, South Africa. Plovers Lake has been declared a South African National Heritage Site....
The cave's most prominent fossil specimen, since known among paleoanthropologists as the "Petralona Skull". The on-site Museum display a selection of...
three sites in Britain to have produced fossils of ancient species of humans (together with Boxgrove and Swanscombe) and the only one with fossils of a...
the well known South African hominid-bearing sites of Sterkfontein and Kromdraai and about 45 kilometres (28 mi) north-northwest of Johannesburg, South...
The archaeological sites of Swartkrans and Kromdraai are in the same area. Sterkfontein is a South African National Heritage Site and was also declared...
found in the Kromdraai and included a complete skull and mandible. More material has been found at other places, such as the Malapa FossilSite, all in South...
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