Canteen Kopje: A new look at an old skull

South African Journal of Science

 
 
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Title Canteen Kopje: A new look at an old skull
 
Creator Smith, Patricia Nshimirimana, Robert de Beer, Frikkie Morris, David Jacobson, Leon Chazan, Michael Horwitz, Liora K.
 
Subject History; Archaeology; Physical Anthropology Canteen Kopje; Boskop; Robert Broom; X-ray tomography; Vaal Gravels
Description The Canteen Kopje (CK) skull was found by a diamond digger working the Vaal River gravels in 1929. It was hailed by Robert Broom as an exceptionally robust prehistoric individual that was ancestral to modern South African populations. Further exploration of the Vaal Gravels has confirmed the antiquity of the purported find locality, but the heavily restored CK cranium offers limited possibilities for morphometric re-examination or direct dating with which to test Broom’s assertion. We used X-ray tomography to create a computerised 3D image that would provide optimal visualisation of the morphometry of the bony surfaces. The results showed that the CK cranium falls within the range of variation of Holocene Khoesan and lacks archaic features. We propose that it was probably a Late Stone Age intrusion into the Vaal Gravels or the overlying Hutton Sands.
 
Publisher AOSIS
 
Contributor Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) The Hebrew University
Date 2012-01-16
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — Historical Inquiry
Format application/pdf text/html application/epub+zip text/xml
Identifier 10.4102/sajs.v108i1/2.738
 
Source South African Journal of Science; Vol 108, No 1/2 (2012); 9 pages 1996-7489 0038-2353
 
Language eng
 
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Coverage Northern Cape Province, South Africa Quaternary Fossil
Rights Copyright (c) 2012 Patricia Smith, Robert Nshimirimana, Frikkie de Beer, David Morris, Leon Jacobson, Michael Chazan, Liora K. Horwitz https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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