The search for human origins in Africa has partly narrowed down to probing into the origins
of the modern human lineage and the identification of a set of behaviours that characterises …

The cross‐sectional distribution of cortical bone in long bone diaphyses is highly responsive
to mechanical loading during life, yet the relationship between systemic and localized …

Abstract The Raymond A. Dart Collection of Human Skeletons (Dart Collection) is housed in
the School of Anatomical Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg …

The four to six month old infant from Border Cave, found with a perforated Conus shell in a
pit excavated in Howiesons Poort (HP) layers dated to 74±4 BP, is considered the oldest …

A decade ago, we summarised the South African and Lesotho Stone Age technocomplex
sequence as a heuristic exercise, anchored in 242 dated assemblages (Lombard et al …

Aim Human skeletal repositories are crucial resources for research and education in human
biology, variation, anatomy, biocultural frameworks, forensic/medico-legal casework …

Integration of new biological information (stable isotope analyses of archaeological human
skeletons) with the archaeological sequence of southernmost Africa and with wider …

Radiocarbon dates (3500–900 BP) from human skeletons (N= 146) of late Holocene
foragers from the Southwestern Cape coast are calibrated, incorporating estimates of the …

As indicators of the intensity and frequency of muscle activity, the rugosity and size of muscle
insertion areas in human skeletal remains may provide a record of average work effort in …

Variation in the size of structures within mature cortical bone is relevant to our understanding
of apparent differences between human samples, and it is relevant to the development of …