Male philopatry and female dispersal amongst two species of early hominins from the Sterkfontein valley
Keywords:
strontium isotopes, Sterkfontein, Swartkrans, hominin behaviour, Australopithecus, Paranthropus
References
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2. Sillen A, Hall G, Richardson S, Armstrong R. 87Sr/86Sr ratios in modern and fossil food-webs of the Sterkfontein Valley: Implications for early hominid habitat preferences. Geochim Cosmochim Acta. 1998;62:2463–2473. doi:10.1016/S0016-7037(98)00182-3
3. McHenry HM, Coffing K. Australopithecus to Homo: Transformations in body and mind. Ann Rev Anthropol. 2000;29:125–146. doi:10.1146/annurev.anthro.29.1.125
4. Price TD, Burton JH, Bentley RA. The characterization of biologically available strontium isotope ratios for the study of prehistoric migration. Archaeometry. 2002;44:117–135. doi:10.1111/1475-4754.00047
5. Copeland SR, Sponheimer M, Lee-Thorp JA, Le Roux PJ, De Ruiter DJ, Richards MP. Strontium isotope ratios in fossil teeth from South Africa: Assessing laser ablation MC-ICP-MS analysis and the extent of diagenesis. J Archaeol Sci. 2010;37:1437–1446. doi:10.1016/j.jas.2010.01.003
6. Goodall J. The chimpanzees of Gombe: Patterns of behavior. Cambridge: Harvard University Press; 1986.
7. Robbins MM, Bernejo M, Cipoletta C, Magliocca F, Parnell RJ, Stokes E. Social structure and life-history patterns in western gorillas. Am J Primatol. 2004;64:145–159. doi:10.1002/ajp.20069, PMid:15470749
8. Schoeninger M. In search of the Australopithecines. Nature. 2011;474:43–44. doi:10.1038/474043a, PMid:21637250
Published
2011-07-22
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