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Andy I.R. Herries at La Trobe Archaeoogy

Palaeoanthropology & Geochronology Professor at La Trobe University Archaeology. Director of the Drimolen Palaeoanthropology Field School, Amanzi Springs & The Australian Archaeomagnetism Laboratory he/him

A new ~2 Ma hominin cranium just discovered at the Drimolen hominin site in South Africa as part of a newly funded @arc-gov-au.bsky.social project to @ltuarchaeology.bsky.social @latrobe.edu.au and University of Johannesburg. The first year of joint Drimolen-Kromdraai excavations.

Latests open access paper from Amanzi Springs, with the oldest MSA on the southern African coast at ~230 ka & potential evidence for regional variability in the transition from the Acheulian along the Palaeo-Agulhas Plain compared to the Highvelt interior of S. Africa www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Hominin postcranial remains from Drimolen Main Quarry, South Africa 🏺🧪 @caleyorr.bsky.social , @ozarchaeomaglab.bsky.social et al anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... These results might reflect taxonomic variation or evolutionary mosaicism of the postcrania.

Latests paper from the ARC funded #Drimolen team in our aim to fully publish the hominin fossil material excavated from Drimolen in South Africa since 1994 ( @latrobeuni.bsky.social ). Scans of the postcranial material are available online: human-fossil-record.org/index.php?%2...

The StW 573 Little Foot Fossil Should Not Be Attributed to Australopithecus prometheus 🏺🧪 Jesse Martin, @ozarchaeomaglab.bsky.social et al onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Finds morphology does not support assigning specimen to A. prometheus because it does not share a unique suite traits.

Postcranial fossils from the site of Drimolen in the Cradle of Humankind in South Africa provide further insights into hominin paleobiology at approximately 2.0 million years ago! New study by Caley M. Orr et al.: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

ARC says they’ll announce Centres of Excellence outcomes tomorrow (Tuesday 9th Dec). This is more than 2 months late, most likely due to the new security checking requirements for ARC grants. Centres of Excellence grants also need to have been approved by the Minister.

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I'm happy to present our paper in which we describe hominin postcrania from Drimolen. Many of these specimens sat in a drawer at Wits Uni for > 20 years. It's amusing to me that the image here includes two fossils in that drawer that were labeled "hominin" but that we decided are not! 1/

Andy I.R. Herries at La Trobe Archaeoogy

We've made our 3D scans of these Drimolen postcranial specimens available in the online archive at The Human Fossil Record. Hopefully access to these fossils contributes well to other studies of early hominin postcranial anatomy & variation. Meanwhile, fieldwork & analysis at Drimolen continue. 9/

Andy I.R. Herries at La Trobe Archaeoogy

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