Nature 225, 1112 - 1119 (21 March 1970); doi:10.1038/2251112a0

New Finds at the Swartkrans Australopithecine Site

C. K. BRAIN

Transvaal Museum, Pretoria

New discoveries at Swartkrans, in South Africa, an important cave site for the study of the australopithecine stage of human evolution, include a new series of australopithecine remains and an associated stone culture. Recent investigations have clarified the original form of the cave and a study of the accumulations of bones in the cave suggests that the australopithecines who lived there may have been the prey of leopards. In this article, Dr Brain introduces the new discoveries : further reports will follow.

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