{"id":5,"date":"2017-07-27T11:10:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T09:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/2017\/07\/27\/3-5-million-years-of-human-evolution-at-the-sterkfontein-caves-gauteng-south-africa\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T11:09:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T09:09:58","slug":"3-5-million-years-of-human-evolution-at-the-sterkfontein-caves-gauteng-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/uncategorized\/3-5-million-years-of-human-evolution-at-the-sterkfontein-caves-gauteng-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"3.5 million years of human evolution at the Sterkfontein Caves, Gauteng, South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2017-human-evolution-sterkfontein-web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-807 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2017-human-evolution-sterkfontein-web.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2017-human-evolution-sterkfontein-web.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2017-human-evolution-sterkfontein-web-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2017-human-evolution-sterkfontein-web-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nJoint seminar IFAS-Research, the Evolutionnary Studies Institute and the School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies of Wits University<br \/>\nThursday 24 August 2017<\/h4>\n<p><strong>09:30 &#8211; 13:30 &#8211; Archaeology Lecture Theatre, Origins North Bdg. Lecture Room (1st fl), Wits University<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Am\u00e9lie Beaudet<\/strong> | Paleoanthropology | SGAES, Wits<br \/>\n<em><em>The Sterkfontein hominin assemblage: how the world\u2019s richest Australopithecus-bearing site contributes to unveiling the human brain evolutionary history.<\/em><\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Laurent Bruxelles<\/strong> | Geology | INRAP &amp; IFAS-Research<br \/>\n<em><em>Stratigraphy of Sterkfontein\u2019s Member 2: relationships with cave evolution, breccia accumulation, Little Foot fossilization and recent dating.<\/em><\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Ron Clarke<\/strong> | Paleoanthropology | ESI, Wits<br \/>\n<em><em>The past and future of Sterkfontein hominid research.<\/em><\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Kathleen Kuman<\/strong> | Archaeology | SGAES, Wits<br \/>\n<em><em>Sterkfontein\u2019s archaeology: past achievements and future prospects.<\/em><\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Shani Reddy<\/strong> | Paleoanthropology | SGAES, Wits<br \/>\n<em><em>A hominid juvenile partial maxilla (StW 629\/631) from Sterkfontein and associated artefacts.<\/em><\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Dominic Stratford<\/strong> | Geology | SGAES, Wits<br \/>\n<em>The Sterkfontein Member 4: past, present and future.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joint seminar IFAS-Research, the Evolutionnary Studies Institute and the School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies of Wits University Thursday 24 August 2017 09:30 &#8211; 13:30 &#8211; Archaeology Lecture Theatre, Origins North Bdg. Lecture Room (1st fl), Wits University Am\u00e9lie Beaudet | Paleoanthropology | SGAES, Wits The Sterkfontein hominin assemblage: how the world\u2019s richest Australopithecus-bearing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":807,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,17,1,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-events","category-uncategorized","category-workshops-seminars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","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=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8185,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions\/8185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}