title: New hominid fossils from Member 1 of the Swartkrans formation, South Africa.
abstract: Member 1 of the Swartkrans Formation is comprised of two sedimentary infills, the Lower Bank (LB) and the Hanging Remnant (HR). Together, the LB and HR preserve fossils of early Homo and Paranthropus robustus, Earlier Stone Age lithic artifacts, purported bone digging tools and butchered animal bones. Collectively, this evidence was the first to establish the co-existence of two early Pleistocene hominid species and also led to inferences of plant root harvesting and meat-eating by one or both of those species. P. robustus is the more abundant of the two hominids at Swartrkrans, represented in Member 1 by hundreds of fossils that derive from at least 99 individuals. Thus, Swartkrans Member 1 stands as the world's single largest repository of that extinct species. Here we add to the Member 1 sample of hominid fossils with descriptions of 14 newly discovered specimens.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA. tpickering@wisc.edu
authors.forename: Travis Rayne
authors.initials: TR
authors.lastname: Pickering
authors.forename: Jason L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Heaton
authors.forename: Ronald J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Clarke
authors.forename: Morris B
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Sutton
authors.forename: C K
authors.initials: CK
authors.lastname: Brain
authors.forename: Kathleen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kuman
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005580:Fossils; D015186:Hominidae / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D007180:Incisor / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D012727:Sex Characteristics; D013019:South Africa; D014070:Tooth / Q000033:anatomy & histology*