人類学演習・談話会
Kromdraai Cave – in search of human origins
Dr. Bernhard Zipfel（Evolutionary Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa）
2023年11月10日(金) 16:50-18:35 理学部2号館201号室
The Kromdraai archaeological site is located in a fossiliferous paleokarst situated in the World Heritage Site referred to as the ‘‘Cradle of Humankind’’ in the Gauteng Province of South Africa. It 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. The period of 3 to 2 million years ago is critical to investigate the origins of humankind. The earth’s average surface temperature became cooler and the global climate became more unstable, resulting in a more open landscape. Australopithecus was replaced by the two sister lineages represented by ‘robust’ australopiths (Paranthropus) and the first members of Homo. These changes, are recorded within the unique stratigraphic sequence of the Kromdraai archaeological site and aims to reconstruct palaeobiological and palaeoenvironmental aspects of the evolution of hominins and other extinct species recovered at Kromdraai during fieldwork undertaken since 2014. This will contribute to better understanding the biological features that made us human when our genus (Homo) first appeared in Africa more than 2.5 million of years ago
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