{"id":3272,"date":"2018-12-20T10:25:13","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T08:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/?p=3272"},"modified":"2019-01-15T09:41:37","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T07:41:37","slug":"kromdraai-a-birthplace-of-paranthropus-in-the-cradle-of-humankind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/uncategorized\/kromdraai-a-birthplace-of-paranthropus-in-the-cradle-of-humankind\/","title":{"rendered":"Kromdraai : a Birthplace of Paranthropus in the Cradle of Humankind"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>A South African Heritage Site<\/h3>\n<h4>Jos\u00e9 Braga &amp; John Francis Thackeray (ed.)<\/h4>\n<p>African Sun Media, Stellenbosch, 2016, 111p.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Kromdraai.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3274 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Kromdraai.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"486\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Kromdraai.jpg 842w, https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Kromdraai-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Kromdraai-768x543.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This book is dedicated to the palaeontogical site of Kromdraai, one of the most well-known sites of the \u2018Cradle of Humankind\u2019, the famous UNESCO World Heritage site located in the Gauteng province (South Africa). From 1938 to 1943, Robert Broom described important hominin fossil discoveries from Kromdraai as belonging to a single individual and designated the type specimen as one of our distant relatives, called Paranthropus robustus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This publication features research from IFAS-Recherche friend, Jos\u00e9 Braga, as well as IFAS-Recherche associated and senior researchers, Am\u00e9lie Beaudet and Laurent Bruxelles.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.africansunmedia.co.za\/Sun-e-Shop\/Product-Details\/tabid\/78\/ProductID\/371\/Default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&gt; Full details<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/wits.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2326 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/wits.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"77\" height=\"76\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/wits.jpg 226w, https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/wits-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 77px) 100vw, 77px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/logo_esi_02_200x200.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3273\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/logo_esi_02_200x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"78\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/logo_esi_02_200x200.png 200w, https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/logo_esi_02_200x200-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 78px) 100vw, 78px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/logo-cnrs-web.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-283\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/logo-cnrs-web.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"106\" height=\"71\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/logo-cnrs-web.png\">\u00a0 <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/2016-IFAS-Research.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2317\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/2016-IFAS-Research.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"119\" height=\"69\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/2016-IFAS-Research.png 434w, https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/2016-IFAS-Research-300x173.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 119px) 100vw, 119px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A South African Heritage Site Jos\u00e9 Braga &amp; John Francis Thackeray (ed.) African Sun Media, Stellenbosch, 2016, 111p. This book is dedicated to the palaeontogical site of Kromdraai, one of the most well-known sites of the \u2018Cradle of Humankind\u2019, the famous UNESCO World Heritage site located in the Gauteng province (South Africa). From 1938 to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3274,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,16,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-publications","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3272"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3284,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3272\/revisions\/3284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}