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In 1993, while a visiting lecturer at the University of Cape Town John Parkington
and Cedric Poekenpoel took me to a site they had heard about in Saldanha Bay, on
the West Coast of South Africa. The site was a dune deposit with bone eroding out
following damage during road-building. It was thought that the site was around
300,000 years old. Shortly after arriving I noticed a tiny enamel fragment on the
ground. It was a central fovea of a human tooth. After careful excavation we
recovered about fourteen more fragments of the same tooth which I carefully pieced
together. This discovery would lead to excavations that would last for more than
five years and result in the recovery of several more hominins and the detailed
excavations of the site. To read some of these papers click on the links below:
and Cedric Poekenpoel took me to a site they had heard about in Saldanha Bay, on
the West Coast of South Africa. The site was a dune deposit with bone eroding out
following damage during road-building. It was thought that the site was around
300,000 years old. Shortly after arriving I noticed a tiny enamel fragment on the
ground. It was a central fovea of a human tooth. After careful excavation we
recovered about fourteen more fragments of the same tooth which I carefully pieced
together. This discovery would lead to excavations that would last for more than
five years and result in the recovery of several more hominins and the detailed
excavations of the site. To read some of these papers click on the links below: