Palaeomagnetic analysis of the Sterkfontein palaeocave deposits: Implications for the age of the hominin fossils and stone tool industries

AIR Herries, J Shaw - Journal of human evolution, 2011 - Elsevier
Palaeomagnetic analysis was conducted on speleothems from Members 1–5 at Sterkfontein
Cave, South Africa. Palaeomagnetic analysis of siltstone and speleothem from the bulk of …

A Multi-Disciplinary Perspective on the Age of Australopithecus in Southern Africa

AIR Herries, R Pickering, JW Adams, D Curnoe… - The paleobiology of …, 2013 - Springer
This paper presents a review of, and new data concerning, the age of Australopithecus in
southern Africa. Current dating suggests that Makapansgat Limeworks is the oldest hominin …

A multi-disciplinary seriation of early Homo and Paranthropus bearing palaeocaves in southern Africa

AIR Herries, D Curnoe, JW Adams - Quaternary International, 2009 - Elsevier
Fossils of early Homo and Paranthropus have been recovered from several sites in southern
Africa. Unfortunately, their precise age has historically been difficult to assess, hampering …

The first bone tools from Kromdraai and stone tools from Drimolen, and the place of bone tools in the South African Earlier Stone Age

RC Stammers, MV Caruana, AIR Herries - Quaternary International, 2018 - Elsevier
An apparently unique part of the Earlier Stone Age record of Africa are a series of bone tools
dated to between∼ 2 and∼ 1 Ma from the sites of Olduvai in East Africa, and Swartkrans …

Stratigraphy, U-Th chronology, and paleoenvironments at Gladysvale Cave: insights into the climatic control of South African hominin-bearing cave deposits

R Pickering, PJ Hancox, JA Lee-Thorp, R Grün… - Journal of Human …, 2007 - Elsevier
Gladysvale Cave is one of the few Plio-Pleistocene hominin-bearing cave sites in South
Africa that contains a well-stratified cave fill with clastic sediments interspersed with …

Integrating palaeocaves into palaeolandscapes: An analysis of cave levels and karstification history across the Gauteng Malmani dolomite, South Africa

AIR Herries, JW Adams, R Joannes-Boyau… - Quaternary science …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Drimolen Palaeocave System in the 'Fossil Hominid Sites of South
Africa'UNESCO World Heritage Site is well known for numerous remains of early hominins …

Orbital forcing and the spread of C4 grasses in the late Neogene: stable isotope evidence from South African speleothems

PJ Hopley, JD Marshall, GP Weedon… - Journal of Human …, 2007 - Elsevier
Reconstructing Plio-Pleistocene African paleoenvironments is important for models of early
hominin evolution, but is often hampered by low-resolution or discontinuous climatic data …

Palaeoenvironments and palaeodiets of mid-Pliocene micromammals from Makapansgat Limeworks, South Africa: a stable isotope and dental microwear approach

PJ Hopley, AG Latham, JD Marshall - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2006 - Elsevier
Savannah (C4) grasses are first recorded at low latitudes in the mid-Miocene prior to their
expansion towards mid-latitudes by approximately the Miocene–Pliocene boundary. In an …

Speleology and magnetobiostratigraphic chronology of the GD 2 locality of the Gondolin hominin-bearing paleocave deposits, North West Province, South Africa

AIR Herries, JW Adams, KL Kuykendall… - Journal of Human …, 2006 - Elsevier
Speleological, paleomagnetic, mineral magnetic, and biochronological analyses have been
undertaken at the Gondolin hominin-bearing paleocave, North West Province, South Africa …

Chronology of the hominin sites of southern Africa

AIR Herries - Oxford research encyclopedia of anthropology, 2022 - oxfordre.com
The identification of the Taung Child Australopithecus africanus type specimen as an early
human fossil (hominin) by Raymond Dart in 1924, followed by key discoveries at sites like …