2023 Palaeo-TrACKS symposium
THE PALAEO-RESEARCH INSTITUTE 2023 SYMPOSIUM
We are excited to announce that we will be hosting our annual Symposium on 27 October 2023! See the detailed programme below
Venue: JM Coetzee Boardroom, APB Library, University of Johannesburg
Date: 27 October 2023
Time: 09h00am-12h30pm
Early Morning Session. Chair: Matt Caruana
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 09h00-09h20 | Motsodisa, B. | The use of bovid astragali and preliminary taphonomic analysis of Femur Dump (Bolt’s Farm Cave System) in understanding past environments. |
| 09h20-09h40 | Caruana/Baker, S. | Mystery Mustelid: A not-so-funny humerus from the Drimolen Main Quarry and a possible new species. |
| 09h40-10h00 | Mohetloa, M. | An evidence-informed proposal for the conservation and maintenance of the 2.6-Million-year-old Drimolen Makondo, South Africa. |
| 10h00-10h20 | Kgotleng, D.W. | Preliminary analysis of fossil cercopithecid monkeys from Kromdraai B. |
| 10h20-10h40 | Tsotetsi, M. | A qualitative and morphometric comparative analysis of changes in the Cercopithecoid proximal humerus in Sterkfontein from Member 2 to Member 4 during the Plio-Pleistocene. |
10h40-10h50 TEA BREAK
Late morning Session. Chair: Justin Bradfield
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 10h50-11h10 | Caruana, M. | What can the backed knives from Wonderboom tell us about Acheulean behaviour, cognition and sociality. |
| 11h10-11h30 | Lombard, M. | The foodplant fitness landscape of Wonderboom and possible implications for Middle Pleistocene foragers of the Magaliesberg, South Africa. |
| 11h30-11h50 | Lotter, M. | Raw material procurement at Wonderboom, South Africa: exploring sourcing strategies and landscape-use patterns during the Pleistocene. |
| 11H50-12h10 | Bradfield, J. | The oldest medicine container in southern Africa? |
| 12h10-12h30 | Senyane, L. | Use-wear analysis on bone spatulas from the Holocene: an update on progress. |