Publications in Peer-Reviewed and DE Accredited Journals
Berger, L.R. (1992) Early hominid fossils discovered at Gladysvale Cave, South Africa. S. Afr. J. Sci. 88, 362
Berger, L.R. (1993) A preliminary estimate of the age of the Gladysvale australopithecine site. Palaeont. Afr. 30,
51-55
Berger, L.R., Keyser, A.W., & Tobias, P.V. (1993) Gladysvale: first early hominid site discovered in South Africa
since 1948. Am. J. Phys. Anthrop. 92, 107-111.
Berger, L.R. and Tobias, P.V. (1994) New discoveries at the early hominid site of Gladysvale S. Afr. J. Sci. 90 ,
223-226.
Berger, L.R. , Menter, C.G. & Thackeray, J.F. (1994) The renewal of excavation activities at Kromdraai, South
Africa. S. Afr. J. Sci. 90, 209-210.
Cameron, N., Berger, L.R. & McKee, J.K. (1994) Training for Africans in Africa. Nature, 372, 589.
.
Berger, L.R. & Clarke, R.J. (1995) Bird of prey involvement in the collection of the Taung child fauna. J. Hum.
Evol. 29 (3), 275-299.
Berger, L.R., Pickford, M. & Thackeray, J.F. (1995) A Plio-Pleistocene hominid upper central incisor from the
Cooper’s site, South Africa. S. Afr. J. Sci. 91, 541-542.
Berger, L.R. & Parkington, J.P. (1995) A new Pleistocene hominid bearing locality at Hoedjiespunt, South Africa.
Am. J. Phys. Anthrop. 96, 601-609.
Berger, L.R. (1995) Swartkrans, a caves chronicle of early man by C.K. Brain. S. Afr. Arch. Bull. 49, 10-107.
McKee, J.K., Thackeray, J.F., and Berger, L.R. (1995) Faunal assemblage seriation of South African Pliocene
and Pleistocene fossil deposits. Am. J. Phys. Anthrop. 96, 235-250.
Berger, L.R. (1996) Birds of prey and the death of the Taung child. S. Afr. J. Sci. 92, 62.
Berger, L.R. & Tobias, P.V. (1996) A chimpanzee-like tibia from Sterkfontein, South Africa and its implications for
interpretations of bipedalism in Australopithecus africanus. J. Hum. Evol. 30, 343 –
Berger, L.R. & Clarke, R.J. (1996) The Load of the Taung child. Nature, 378, 670.
Berger, L.R. & Brink, J. (1996) Middle Pleistocene fossil fauna including a human patella from the Riet River,
South Africa. S. Afr. J. Sci. 92, 277-278.
Roberts, D. & Berger, L.R. (1997) 117k year old human footprints from Langebaan Lagoon, South Africa. S. Afr.
J. Sci. 93, 349-350.
Schmid, P. & Berger, L.R. (1997) a hominoid phalanx from the Gladysvale site, South Africa. S. Afr. J. Sci. 93,
430-431.
(1998) Body proportions in Australopithecus africanus and the origins of the genus
Homo. J. Hum. Evol. 35, 1-22.
McHenry, H.M & Berger, L.R. (1998) Limb lengths in Australopithecus africanus and the origins of the genus
Homo. S. afr. J. of Sci. 94, 447-450.
Brink, J., Berger, L.R. & Churchill, S. (1999) Mammalian fossils from erosional gullies (dongas) in the Doring
River drainage, central Free State Province, South Africa. Hist. Animal. Ex Ossib. 65, 79 – 90.
Churchill, S., Berger, L.R. & Parkington, J.P. (2000) A Homo cf. heidelbergensis tibia from the Hoedjiespunt site,
Western Cape, South Africa S. Afr. J. Sci. 96, 367-368.
Churchill, S. , Brink, J. , Berger, L., Hutchinson, A., Rousseau, L, Stynder, D., Hancox, J., Brandt, D., Look, J.,
Scott, L., Ungar, P. (2000) Erfkroon: A new early Florisian Locality from fluvial contexts in the western free state.
S. African J. Sci. 161-163.
De Ruiter, D. & Berger, L. (2000) Leopards as taphonomic agents in dolomitic caves – implications for Bone
accumulations in the hominid-bearing deposits of South Africa. J. Arch. Sci. 27, 665-684.
Keyser, A.W., Menter, C.G., Moggi-Cecchi, J., Pickering, T.R. & Berger, L.R. (2000) Drimolen: A new hominid-
bearing site in Guateng, South Africa. S. Afr. J. Sci. 96, 193-197.
Hausler, M. and Berger, L.R. (2001) Stw 441/465: a new fragmentary ilium of a small-bodied Australopithecus
africanus from Sterkfontein, South Africa J. Hum. Evol., 40, No. 5, pp. 411-417
D’ Errico, F., Backwell, L. and Berger, L. (2001) Bone tool use in termite foraging by early hominids and its
impact on understanding early hominid behaviour. S. Afr. J. Sci. 97, 71-75.
de Ruiter, D.J. and Berger, L.R. (2001). A note on leopard (Panthera pardus Linneaus) cave caching related to
anti-theft behavior in the John Nash Nature Reserve, South Africa. African Journal of Ecology, 39, 396-399.
Thackeray, J.F., de Ruiter, D.J., Berger, L.R. and van de Merwe, N. (2001). Hominid fossils from Kromdraai: a
revised list of specimens discovered since 1938. Annals of the Transvaal Museum, 38, 43-56.
Stynder, D.D., Moggi-Cecchi, J., Berger, L.R. and Parkington, J.E. (2001) Human mandibular
incisors from the (terminal Middle Pleistocene) locality of Hoedjiespunt 1, South Africa. J.
Hum. Evol. 41, no. 5, 369 – 383.
Mutter, R.J., Berger, L.R. & Schmid, P. (2001) New Evidence of the Giant Hyaena, Pachycrocuta brevirostris
(Carnivora, Hyaenidae) from Gladysvale Cave Deposit (Plio/Pleistocene, John Nash Nature Reserve ), Guatang,
South Africa. Palaeontologia africana 37, 103-113.
Berger, L.R., Lacruz, R. and deRuiter, D. (2002) The Age of South African Hominin Bearing with Special
Reference to Sterkfontein Member 4, Member 2 and Jacovec Cavern. Am. J. Phys. Anth. 119, 192 – 197.
Berger, L.R. (2002) Response to Chalk and Cheese. J. Hum. Evol. 43, 126.
R. S. Lacruz, J. S. Brink, P. J. Hancox, L. R. Berger, A. S. Skinner, A. Herries and P. Schmidt (2002)
Palaeontology and Geology of a Middle Pleistocene Faunal Assemblage from the Gladysvale Cave, South
Africa. Palaeont. Afr.
Berger, L.R. (2002) Early hominid body proportions and emerging complexities in the origin of the genus Homo.
Evol. Anthrop. 11, 42 – 44.
Nigro, J.D., Ungar, P.S., de Ruiter, D. and Berger, L.R.(2003) Developing a Geographic Information System
(GIS) for mapping and analyzing fossil deposits at Swartkrans, Gauteng Province, South Africa. J. Arch. Sci. 30,
317-324.
R. Lacruz, P. Ungar, P.J. Hancox, J.S. Brink & L.R. Berger (2003) Gladysvale: Fossils, strata and GIS analysis. S.
Afr. J. Sci. 99, 283 – 285.
L.R. Berger, D. J. de Ruiter, C. M. Steininger and J. Hancox. (2003) Preliminary results of excavations at the
newly discovered Coopers D deposit, Gauteng, South Africa. S. Afr. J. Sci. 99, 276 – 278.
Berger, L.R. and Lacruz, R. (2003) Preliminary report on the first excavations at the new fossil site of Motsetse,
Gauteng, South Africa. S. Afr. J. Sci. 99, 279 – 282.
Häusler, M., K. Isler, Schmid, P., and Berger, L. (2004). "3D-Digital Mapping of the Early Hominid Site of
Gladysvale Cave, South Africa." Human Evolution 19(1): 45-42.
De Ruiter, D. , Steininger, C.M. and Berger, L.R. (2006) A cranial base of Austraopithecus robustus from the
Hanging Remnant of Swartkrans, South Africa. Am. J. Phys. Anthrop. 130: 435-444.
Berger, L.R. (2006) Comments on Dobson (2005), body proportions in early hominis, and the joint and limb
proportion differences between Stw 431 (A. africanus) and A.L. 288-1 (A. afarensis). J. Hum. Evol. 52: 109 – 110.
Berger, L.R. (2006) Brief communication: Predatory bird damage to the Taung type-skull of Australopithecus
africanus Dart 1925. Am. J. Phys. Anthrop.
Hall, G., Berger, L.R., Lacruz, R., Pickering, R., Hancox, J., Schmid, P. (2006) An Achuelean handaxe from the
Gladysvale Cave Site in the Witwatersrand region of South Africa. S. African J. Sci.
Lacruz, R.S. and Berger, L.R. (in press) new Dinofelis specimens from the Cradle of Humankind, South Africa.
Annals of the Transvaal Museum.
Berger, L.R., Pickering, R., Kuhn, B., Backwell. L., Boshoff, P. and Hancox, J. (in press) The first recorded
occurrence of a fossil borwn hyaena (Parahyaena brunnea) latrine (midden) in a cave situationin Africa from the
gladysvale site, South Africa. Ann. Transvaal Mus.
Hartstone-Rose, A., DeRuiter, D., Berger, L.R. , Churchill, S. (in press) .A saber-tooth felid from Coopers Cave
(Gauteng, South Africa) and its implications for Megantereon (Felidae Machairodontinae) taxonomy. Pal. Afr.
Berger, L.R., Hall, G., Berger, L.R., Churchill, S.E., Steininger, C., Pettitt, P., Pickering, R., Hancox, J., Backwell,
L.R. (under review) New hominids, artifacts and athropomorphically modified remains from the Coopers Cave
site in the Witwatersrand region of South Africa. J. Hum. Evol.
Zipfel, B. and Berger, L.R. (submitted)
Books/Theses/Chapters in Books
Berger L.R. (1994) The Functional Morphology of the Hominoid Shoulder Girdle: Past and Present. Ph.D.
Thesis, University of the Witwatersrand.
Berger, L.R. (1996) Is Africa the cradle of humankind? Nature, God ad Humanity (ed. C. du Toit) UNISA press,
Pretoria, pp 226-243.
Berger,L.R. (1998) Redrawing the family tree? Nat. Geog. 194, no. 2, 90-99.
Impact: Circulation > 11,000,000
Berger, L.R. and Read, M (1999) Visions of the Past. Vision. End. Wild. Trust. 118 – 127.
Anderson, J., Thackeray, F., Rubidge, B. van Wyk, B., Smith, G., de Wit, M and Berger, L.R. (1999) Towards
Gondwana Alive: promoting biodiversity and stemming the sixth extinction Gondwana Alive Soc. Press. ISBN: 1-
919795-43-X
Berger, L.R. and Hilton-Barber, B. (2000) In the Footsteps of Eve: the Mystery of Human Origins. National
Geographic Adventure Press. ISBN 0-7922-7682-5
Impact: >40,000 copies sold worldwide
Berger, L.R. Epilogo. In Tras las huellas de Eva. Berger, L.R. and Hilton-Barber, B. 349-355. Sine Qua Non,
Barcelona.
Hilton-Barber, B. and Berger, L.R. (2002) The Field Guide to the Cradle of Humankind. Struik. ISBN 1-86872-
739-4
Impact: 1st edition sold out (>6,500 copies). 2nd edition > 6,500 copies
Berger, L.R. (2002) Change Starts in Africa. In: South Africa – the Good News. Bowes, B. and Steurt, S. Eds.
Nigro, J. , Limp, F. , Kvamme, K., DeRuiter, D. , Berger, L. (2002) The creation and potential applications of 3-
dimensional GIS for the early hominin site of Swartkrans, South Africa, In Burenhult, G.(ed.) Archaeological
Informatics: Pushing The Envelope; Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology. BAR
International Series 1016, Archaeopress, Oxford.
Berger, L.R. and Keyser, A.W. (in press) Human Origins. In: (McArthy, T.S. and Rubidge, B. (Eds.) University of
the Witwatersrand Press.
Berger, L.R. (2003) Out of Africa – the Langebaan Footprints. In: the guide to the West Coast National Park. J.
Caruthers Ed.
Hilton-Barber, B. and Berger, L.R. (2004) Exploring Kruger. Prime Origins Publishing. ISBN 0-620-31866-x
Berger, L.R. and Hilton Barber, B. (2004) The Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site – South Africa. Map
Studio. ISBN 1-86809-743-9
Berger, L.R. and Smilg, J.S. (2005) the Handling of Medical Emergencies in the Cradle of Humankind. Prime
Origins Publishing and The National Lottery. ISBN 0-620-34248-x
Berger, L.R. (2005) Working and Guiding in the Cradle of Humankind. Prime Origins Publishing and The
National Lottery. ISBN 0-620-31866-x
Berger, L.R. (2005) Advances in the exploration, excavation and understanding of the fossil bearing localities in
the “Cradle of Humankind”. In From Tools to Symbols. From Early Hominids to Modern Humans, F. d’Errico & L.
R. Backwell (Eds). Wits University Press. Johannesburg.
Berger, L.R. and Hilton-Barber, B. (2005) Kruger Park Animal Map. Prime Origins. Cape Town.
Hilton-Barber, B. and Berger, L.R. (2005) Kruger Park Bird Map. Prime Origins. Cape Town.
Berger, L.R. and Hilton-Barber, B. (2006) A guide to Sterkfontein – the Cradle of Humankind. Struik. Cape Town.
isbn 1 7700 257 8
Published Conference Proceedings/ Keynote addresses
Berger, L.R. (1994) The crown jewels of Archaeology. Signature, 6, 16-17.
Berger, L.R. (1994) Gladysvale unveiled: a three million year record of the human adventure. Optima. 40, 38-40.
Berger, L.R. (1997) Tracking the Footsteps of Eve: new discoveries in human origins in South Africa. Address
to the National Geographic Society, Washington. www.nationalgeographic.com
Berger, L.R. (2001) The southern African early hominid record and indications of emerging
complexities in human evolution. The Juan Comas X International Colloquium on Physical
Anthropology. Vol. X of Biological Anthropology Studies journal.
Berger, L.R. (2002) Early hominid body proportions and emerging complexities in human
evolution. Adolf Schultz Symposium, Zurich. Evol. Anthrop.
Berger, L.R. (2002) On the humanity of humans. National Geographic.com. WWW.Nationalgeographic.com/news
Berger, L.R. (2002) Wine at the Dawn of Civilization. Wine Enth. Vol.x. pp.
Technical/Research reports
Berger, L.R. (1994) South Africa’s fossil treasures. Arena. 3.
Berger, L.R. and Keyser, A. (1994) Guide to the Gladysvale Early Hominid Site. Field Excursion guide for the
Southern African Palaeontological Association’s congress
Berger, L.R. (1996) Chronos report. Prepared on behalf of Wits University for the Premier and Cabinet of the
Northwest Province.
Berger, L.R. (1997) Annual Report of the Palaeo-Anthropology Research Group. University of the Witwatersrand
Berger, L.R. Excursion guide to Gladysvale (1998). Guide to Excursions, 1998 Dual Congress, South Africa
Berger, L.R. (1998) Annual Report of the Palaeo-Anthropology Research Group. University of the Witwatersrand
Berger, L.R. Excursion guide to Gladysvale (1999) Excursion Guide, INQUA Congress, Durban, South Africa
Berger, L.R. (1999) Annual Report of the Palaeo-Anthropology Research Group. University of the Witwatersrand
Berger, L.R. (2001) Palaeontology: the study of life in the past. Learning Online Encyclopedia SAE.
Berger, L.R. (2001) An ape by any other name. National Geographic.com . http://news.nationalgeographic.
com/news/2001/12/1204_hominin_id.html
Berger, L.R. (2002) Not seeing the elephants for the trees. National Geographic.com. http://news.
nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/12/1217_leeelephant.html
Berger, L.R. (2002) Fossil Access: A challenge to discoverers and curators. Amer. Assoc. Phys. Anthrop.
Newsletter. vol. 3, No. 2, 2.
Other Relevant Output
Popular articles/reviews
Berger, L.R. (1994) South Africa’s fossil treasures. Arena. 3.
Berger, L.R. (1995) the Ape Men. Sunday Times book review
Berger, L.R. (2006) Megalodon. Divestyle. Sept – Oct.
Berger, L.R. (2006) Diving for Fossils. Divestyle Sept. – Oct.
Published Conference Abstracts/keynote addresses
Berger, L.R. (1989) Rock Fence: A survey of an Archaic Indian site in southeast Georgia. Georgia Academy of
Sciences. (best student paper)
Berger,L.R. (1990) Preliminary analysis of the functional morphology of the shoulder girdle in extant primates.
Anatomical Society of southern Africa.
Berger, L.R. (1992) A preliminary estimate of the age of the Gladysvale Australopithecine site. Palaeontological
Society of southern Africa (Best Paper by a Young Scientist).
Berger, L.R. & Parkington, J.P. (1994) A new Pleistocene hominid bearing locality at Hoedjiespunt, South Africa,
SA Archaeological Bulletin.
Berger, L.R. & Menter, C. (1994) Results of recent excavations of the Gladysvale early hominid site.
Proceedings of the 1994 Palaeontological society of southern Africa.
Berger, L.R. (1994) New hominid discoveries and recent advances in palaeo-anthropology in South Africa.
Proceedings of the 1994 Palaeontological society of southern Africa.
Berger, L.R. (1995) New fossil hominid shoulder girdle elements from Sterkfontein. Proceedings of the 64th
meeting of the American Association of Physical Antrhopologists.
Berger, L.R. (1995) An ape-like fossil tibia from Sterkfontein, South Africa. Proceedings of the
Paleoanthropology Society of America.
Berger, L.R. (1995) Is South Africa the Cradle of Humankind? The South African Science and Religion Forum.
McHenry, H.M. & Berger, L.R. (1996) Ape-like body proportions in A. africanus and their implications for the
origin of the genus Homo. Proceedings of the 65th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical
Anthropologists.
Berger, L.R. & Parkington, J. (1997) 320k year old fossil human remains from Hoedjiespunt, South Africa.
Proceedings of the 66th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.
Berger, L.R. (1997) Tracking the Footsteps of Eve: new discoveries in human origins in South Africa. Address
to the National Geographic Society, Washington.
Berger, L.R. and Tobias, P.V. (1998) New insight into the post-cranial anatomy of Australopithecus africanus.
Proceedings of the Dual Congress 1998, South Africa.
DeRuiter, D. And Berger, L.R. (1998) Leopards as taphonomic agents in dolomitic caves – implications for bone
accumulations in the hominid bearing deposits of South Africa. Proceedings of the Dual Congress 1998, South
Africa.
Isler, K., Hausler, M., Schmid, P. Berger, L.R. (1998) 3d-digital mapping of the early hominid site at Gladysvale
Cave, South Africa. Proceedings of the Dual Congress 1998, South Africa.
McHenry, H.M. & Berger, L.R. (1998) Limb lengths and missing links: body proportions in Australopithecus.
Proceedings of the Dual Congress 1998, South Africa.
McHenry, H.M., Latham, J & Berger, L.R. (1999) Cross-sectional analysis of femora Proceedings of the 68th
Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.
Steininger, C. and Berger, L.R. (2000) Cooper’s cave: a hominid bearing Plio-Pleistocene site. Palaeontological
Society of southern Africa.
Steininger, C. and Berger, L.R. (2000) Cooper’s cave: a hominid bearing Plio-Pleistocene site. Proceedings
of the 69th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.
D.J. de Ruiter & L.R. Berger: Recently recovered hominid fossils from Sterkfontein, South Africa, in collections of
the Transvaal Museum. Palaeontological Society of southern Africa.
Berger, L.R. (2000) Australopithecine body proportions and the evolution of the genus Homo. Palaeontological
Society of southern Africa.
de Ruiter, D.J. and Berger, L.R. (2000) Preliminary analysis of the first ever recovered cranial base of
Paranthropus robustus Canadian Association of Physical Anthropologists.
Menter, C.G., Keyser, A.W., Moggi-Cecchi, J., Pickering, T.R. & Berger, L.R. (2000) A report on the hominid
material from the site of Drimolen, South Africa. Palaeontological Society of southern Africa.
Berger, L.R. (2000) It’s the end of the world as we know it. The human origins conference, South Africa
Berger, L.R. (2000) The southern African early hominid record and indications of emerging
complexities in human evolution. The Juan Comas X International Colloquium on Physical Anthropology. Mexico
Staps. D. and Berger, L.R. (2000) Variability in the vertebral columns of early australopithecines. Germany
(2000) In the Footsteps of Eve – The Young Presidents Organization, Cape Town
(2000) Early hominid body proportions and emerging complexities in human evolution. Adolf Schultz
Symposium, Zurich.
(2000) Berger, L.R. (2000) It’s the end of the world as we know it. The human origins conference, University of
the Witwatersrand, South Africa
(2000) The southern African early hominid record and indications of emerging
complexities in human evolution. The Juan Comas X International Colloquium on Physical Anthropology. Mexico
(2000) In the footsteps of Eve: emerging evidence of human evolution from South Africa - Address to the Royal
Geographical Society, London.
Nigro, J.D., de Ruiter, D.J., Berger, L.R., and Ungar, P.S. (2001). A three-dimensional Geographic Information
System for Swartkrans. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Paleoanthropology Society, 2001, Kansas
City, MO. Abstract in Journal of Human Evolution 40: A15-A16.
Nigro, J.D., Limp, W.F., Kvamme, K.K., de Ruiter, D.J. and Berger, L.R. (2001). The creation of a three-
dimensional Geographic Information System for the early hominid site of Swartkrans. Paper presented at the
annual Computer Applications in Archaeology Meeting in Stockholm, Sweden.
de Ruiter, D.J. and Berger, L.R. (2001) The first-ever described intact cranial base of Paranthropus robustus.
Proceedings of the 70th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.
Berger, L.R. (2001) The Changing face of human evolution in Africa. The International Thereological
Conference, Sun City.
Berger, L.R. (2001) Humans and humanity., keynote, World Design Conference. Johannesburg, South Africa
Berger, L.R. (2001) On being human, keynote, National Executive MENSA, Krugersdorp, South Africa
Berger, L.R. (2001) Human origins and humanity, keynote, the SA Institute of Measurement and Controls
Berger, L.R., Mutter, R.J., Schmid, P., and Morlo, M. (2001) The Giant Hyaena Pachycrocuta brevirostris.
Society for Vertebrate Palaeontology.
Lacruz, R. and Berger, L.R. (2002) Interpretations of biostratigraphy, dating and faunal changes in the
Pleistocene aged hominin bearing deposits of the Gladysvale Cave, South Africa. Proceedings of the 71st
Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.
Berger, L.R., Steininger, C.M. and DeRuiter, D.J.(2002) new fossil hominin and faunal discoveries from the
Coopers site, Gauteng, South Africa. Proceedings of the 71st Annual Meeting of the American Association of
Physical Anthropologists.
Menter, C. and Berger, L.R. New fossil hominid humeral material from South Africa .(2002) Proceedings of the
71st Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.
D. Stynder, J. Moggi-Cecchi, L. Berger, J. Parkington.Human incisors and molars from the Late Pleistocene
hominid locality of Hoedjiespunt, South Africa. .(2002) Proceedings of the 71st Annual Meeting of the American
Association of Physical Anthropologists.
Churchill, S.E. and Berger, L.R. (2002) Body Size In Southern African Middle and Late Pleistocene Humans And
Island Biogeographic Models of Modern Human Origins. Human Origins and Disease Conference, Cold Spring
Harbor
Berger, L.R., Churchill, S. and de Ruiter, D. (2003) Plover's Lake: A hominin-bearing Middle Stone Age site in
the Witwatersrand area, South Africa. Proceedings of the 72nd Annual Meeting of the American Association of
Physical Anthropologists.
B. Zipfel, R. Kidd , L. Berger. (2003) Morphological variation in the metatarsus of modern and ancient Holocene
people from South Africa. Proceedings of the 72nd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical
Anthropologists.
Berger, L.R. 2004. Advances in the exploration, excavation and understanding of the fossil bearing localities in
the “Cradle of Humankind”. Geoscience Africa 2004, Abstract Volume, University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg, South Africa, p. 58
Lacruz, R., Turner, B., Berger, L.R. 2004. New Dinofelis (Carnivora, Machairodontinae) remains from
Sterkfontein valley sites and a taxonomic revision of the genus in southern Africa. Geoscience Africa 2004,
Abstract Volume, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, p.368.
Pickering, R., Hancox, P.J., Lee Thorp, J.A., Grun, R., McCulloch, M., Mortimer, G.E., Berger, L.R. 2004. A well-
dated record of terrestrial climate change and sedimentation for the last 500 Ka from Gladysvale Cave, South
Africa. Geoscience Africa 2004, Abstract Volume, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa,
p. 518.
Steininger, C. DeRuiter, D, Franklin, R. And Berger, L. 2006. New Hominids from Coopers Cave. Abstract
Volume, African Genesis, South Africa p. 88
Churchill, S.E., Berger, L.R. and Zondo, H. 2006. Body size and shape in southern African Middle Pleistocene
Homo. Abstract Volume, African Genesis, South Africa. p. 43.
Berger, L.R. 2006. Who killed the Taung Child? An eighty year old palaeo-mystery solved. Abstract Volume,
African Genesis, South Africa. p. 58.
Berger, L.R. (1992) Early hominid fossils discovered at Gladysvale Cave, South Africa. S. Afr. J. Sci. 88, 362
Berger, L.R. (1993) A preliminary estimate of the age of the Gladysvale australopithecine site. Palaeont. Afr. 30,
51-55
Berger, L.R., Keyser, A.W., & Tobias, P.V. (1993) Gladysvale: first early hominid site discovered in South Africa
since 1948. Am. J. Phys. Anthrop. 92, 107-111.
Berger, L.R. and Tobias, P.V. (1994) New discoveries at the early hominid site of Gladysvale S. Afr. J. Sci. 90 ,
223-226.
Berger, L.R. , Menter, C.G. & Thackeray, J.F. (1994) The renewal of excavation activities at Kromdraai, South
Africa. S. Afr. J. Sci. 90, 209-210.
Cameron, N., Berger, L.R. & McKee, J.K. (1994) Training for Africans in Africa. Nature, 372, 589.
.
Berger, L.R. & Clarke, R.J. (1995) Bird of prey involvement in the collection of the Taung child fauna. J. Hum.
Evol. 29 (3), 275-299.
Berger, L.R., Pickford, M. & Thackeray, J.F. (1995) A Plio-Pleistocene hominid upper central incisor from the
Cooper’s site, South Africa. S. Afr. J. Sci. 91, 541-542.
Berger, L.R. & Parkington, J.P. (1995) A new Pleistocene hominid bearing locality at Hoedjiespunt, South Africa.
Am. J. Phys. Anthrop. 96, 601-609.
Berger, L.R. (1995) Swartkrans, a caves chronicle of early man by C.K. Brain. S. Afr. Arch. Bull. 49, 10-107.
McKee, J.K., Thackeray, J.F., and Berger, L.R. (1995) Faunal assemblage seriation of South African Pliocene
and Pleistocene fossil deposits. Am. J. Phys. Anthrop. 96, 235-250.
Berger, L.R. (1996) Birds of prey and the death of the Taung child. S. Afr. J. Sci. 92, 62.
Berger, L.R. & Tobias, P.V. (1996) A chimpanzee-like tibia from Sterkfontein, South Africa and its implications for
interpretations of bipedalism in Australopithecus africanus. J. Hum. Evol. 30, 343 –
Berger, L.R. & Clarke, R.J. (1996) The Load of the Taung child. Nature, 378, 670.
Berger, L.R. & Brink, J. (1996) Middle Pleistocene fossil fauna including a human patella from the Riet River,
South Africa. S. Afr. J. Sci. 92, 277-278.
Roberts, D. & Berger, L.R. (1997) 117k year old human footprints from Langebaan Lagoon, South Africa. S. Afr.
J. Sci. 93, 349-350.
Schmid, P. & Berger, L.R. (1997) a hominoid phalanx from the Gladysvale site, South Africa. S. Afr. J. Sci. 93,
430-431.
(1998) Body proportions in Australopithecus africanus and the origins of the genus
Homo. J. Hum. Evol. 35, 1-22.
McHenry, H.M & Berger, L.R. (1998) Limb lengths in Australopithecus africanus and the origins of the genus
Homo. S. afr. J. of Sci. 94, 447-450.
Brink, J., Berger, L.R. & Churchill, S. (1999) Mammalian fossils from erosional gullies (dongas) in the Doring
River drainage, central Free State Province, South Africa. Hist. Animal. Ex Ossib. 65, 79 – 90.
Churchill, S., Berger, L.R. & Parkington, J.P. (2000) A Homo cf. heidelbergensis tibia from the Hoedjiespunt site,
Western Cape, South Africa S. Afr. J. Sci. 96, 367-368.
Churchill, S. , Brink, J. , Berger, L., Hutchinson, A., Rousseau, L, Stynder, D., Hancox, J., Brandt, D., Look, J.,
Scott, L., Ungar, P. (2000) Erfkroon: A new early Florisian Locality from fluvial contexts in the western free state.
S. African J. Sci. 161-163.
De Ruiter, D. & Berger, L. (2000) Leopards as taphonomic agents in dolomitic caves – implications for Bone
accumulations in the hominid-bearing deposits of South Africa. J. Arch. Sci. 27, 665-684.
Keyser, A.W., Menter, C.G., Moggi-Cecchi, J., Pickering, T.R. & Berger, L.R. (2000) Drimolen: A new hominid-
bearing site in Guateng, South Africa. S. Afr. J. Sci. 96, 193-197.
Hausler, M. and Berger, L.R. (2001) Stw 441/465: a new fragmentary ilium of a small-bodied Australopithecus
africanus from Sterkfontein, South Africa J. Hum. Evol., 40, No. 5, pp. 411-417
D’ Errico, F., Backwell, L. and Berger, L. (2001) Bone tool use in termite foraging by early hominids and its
impact on understanding early hominid behaviour. S. Afr. J. Sci. 97, 71-75.
de Ruiter, D.J. and Berger, L.R. (2001). A note on leopard (Panthera pardus Linneaus) cave caching related to
anti-theft behavior in the John Nash Nature Reserve, South Africa. African Journal of Ecology, 39, 396-399.
Thackeray, J.F., de Ruiter, D.J., Berger, L.R. and van de Merwe, N. (2001). Hominid fossils from Kromdraai: a
revised list of specimens discovered since 1938. Annals of the Transvaal Museum, 38, 43-56.
Stynder, D.D., Moggi-Cecchi, J., Berger, L.R. and Parkington, J.E. (2001) Human mandibular
incisors from the (terminal Middle Pleistocene) locality of Hoedjiespunt 1, South Africa. J.
Hum. Evol. 41, no. 5, 369 – 383.
Mutter, R.J., Berger, L.R. & Schmid, P. (2001) New Evidence of the Giant Hyaena, Pachycrocuta brevirostris
(Carnivora, Hyaenidae) from Gladysvale Cave Deposit (Plio/Pleistocene, John Nash Nature Reserve ), Guatang,
South Africa. Palaeontologia africana 37, 103-113.
Berger, L.R., Lacruz, R. and deRuiter, D. (2002) The Age of South African Hominin Bearing with Special
Reference to Sterkfontein Member 4, Member 2 and Jacovec Cavern. Am. J. Phys. Anth. 119, 192 – 197.
Berger, L.R. (2002) Response to Chalk and Cheese. J. Hum. Evol. 43, 126.
R. S. Lacruz, J. S. Brink, P. J. Hancox, L. R. Berger, A. S. Skinner, A. Herries and P. Schmidt (2002)
Palaeontology and Geology of a Middle Pleistocene Faunal Assemblage from the Gladysvale Cave, South
Africa. Palaeont. Afr.
Berger, L.R. (2002) Early hominid body proportions and emerging complexities in the origin of the genus Homo.
Evol. Anthrop. 11, 42 – 44.
Nigro, J.D., Ungar, P.S., de Ruiter, D. and Berger, L.R.(2003) Developing a Geographic Information System
(GIS) for mapping and analyzing fossil deposits at Swartkrans, Gauteng Province, South Africa. J. Arch. Sci. 30,
317-324.
R. Lacruz, P. Ungar, P.J. Hancox, J.S. Brink & L.R. Berger (2003) Gladysvale: Fossils, strata and GIS analysis. S.
Afr. J. Sci. 99, 283 – 285.
L.R. Berger, D. J. de Ruiter, C. M. Steininger and J. Hancox. (2003) Preliminary results of excavations at the
newly discovered Coopers D deposit, Gauteng, South Africa. S. Afr. J. Sci. 99, 276 – 278.
Berger, L.R. and Lacruz, R. (2003) Preliminary report on the first excavations at the new fossil site of Motsetse,
Gauteng, South Africa. S. Afr. J. Sci. 99, 279 – 282.
Häusler, M., K. Isler, Schmid, P., and Berger, L. (2004). "3D-Digital Mapping of the Early Hominid Site of
Gladysvale Cave, South Africa." Human Evolution 19(1): 45-42.
De Ruiter, D. , Steininger, C.M. and Berger, L.R. (2006) A cranial base of Austraopithecus robustus from the
Hanging Remnant of Swartkrans, South Africa. Am. J. Phys. Anthrop. 130: 435-444.
Berger, L.R. (2006) Comments on Dobson (2005), body proportions in early hominis, and the joint and limb
proportion differences between Stw 431 (A. africanus) and A.L. 288-1 (A. afarensis). J. Hum. Evol. 52: 109 – 110.
Berger, L.R. (2006) Brief communication: Predatory bird damage to the Taung type-skull of Australopithecus
africanus Dart 1925. Am. J. Phys. Anthrop.
Hall, G., Berger, L.R., Lacruz, R., Pickering, R., Hancox, J., Schmid, P. (2006) An Achuelean handaxe from the
Gladysvale Cave Site in the Witwatersrand region of South Africa. S. African J. Sci.
Lacruz, R.S. and Berger, L.R. (in press) new Dinofelis specimens from the Cradle of Humankind, South Africa.
Annals of the Transvaal Museum.
Berger, L.R., Pickering, R., Kuhn, B., Backwell. L., Boshoff, P. and Hancox, J. (in press) The first recorded
occurrence of a fossil borwn hyaena (Parahyaena brunnea) latrine (midden) in a cave situationin Africa from the
gladysvale site, South Africa. Ann. Transvaal Mus.
Hartstone-Rose, A., DeRuiter, D., Berger, L.R. , Churchill, S. (in press) .A saber-tooth felid from Coopers Cave
(Gauteng, South Africa) and its implications for Megantereon (Felidae Machairodontinae) taxonomy. Pal. Afr.
Berger, L.R., Hall, G., Berger, L.R., Churchill, S.E., Steininger, C., Pettitt, P., Pickering, R., Hancox, J., Backwell,
L.R. (under review) New hominids, artifacts and athropomorphically modified remains from the Coopers Cave
site in the Witwatersrand region of South Africa. J. Hum. Evol.
Zipfel, B. and Berger, L.R. (submitted)
Books/Theses/Chapters in Books
Berger L.R. (1994) The Functional Morphology of the Hominoid Shoulder Girdle: Past and Present. Ph.D.
Thesis, University of the Witwatersrand.
Berger, L.R. (1996) Is Africa the cradle of humankind? Nature, God ad Humanity (ed. C. du Toit) UNISA press,
Pretoria, pp 226-243.
Berger,L.R. (1998) Redrawing the family tree? Nat. Geog. 194, no. 2, 90-99.
Impact: Circulation > 11,000,000
Berger, L.R. and Read, M (1999) Visions of the Past. Vision. End. Wild. Trust. 118 – 127.
Anderson, J., Thackeray, F., Rubidge, B. van Wyk, B., Smith, G., de Wit, M and Berger, L.R. (1999) Towards
Gondwana Alive: promoting biodiversity and stemming the sixth extinction Gondwana Alive Soc. Press. ISBN: 1-
919795-43-X
Berger, L.R. and Hilton-Barber, B. (2000) In the Footsteps of Eve: the Mystery of Human Origins. National
Geographic Adventure Press. ISBN 0-7922-7682-5
Impact: >40,000 copies sold worldwide
Berger, L.R. Epilogo. In Tras las huellas de Eva. Berger, L.R. and Hilton-Barber, B. 349-355. Sine Qua Non,
Barcelona.
Hilton-Barber, B. and Berger, L.R. (2002) The Field Guide to the Cradle of Humankind. Struik. ISBN 1-86872-
739-4
Impact: 1st edition sold out (>6,500 copies). 2nd edition > 6,500 copies
Berger, L.R. (2002) Change Starts in Africa. In: South Africa – the Good News. Bowes, B. and Steurt, S. Eds.
Nigro, J. , Limp, F. , Kvamme, K., DeRuiter, D. , Berger, L. (2002) The creation and potential applications of 3-
dimensional GIS for the early hominin site of Swartkrans, South Africa, In Burenhult, G.(ed.) Archaeological
Informatics: Pushing The Envelope; Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology. BAR
International Series 1016, Archaeopress, Oxford.
Berger, L.R. and Keyser, A.W. (in press) Human Origins. In: (McArthy, T.S. and Rubidge, B. (Eds.) University of
the Witwatersrand Press.
Berger, L.R. (2003) Out of Africa – the Langebaan Footprints. In: the guide to the West Coast National Park. J.
Caruthers Ed.
Hilton-Barber, B. and Berger, L.R. (2004) Exploring Kruger. Prime Origins Publishing. ISBN 0-620-31866-x
Berger, L.R. and Hilton Barber, B. (2004) The Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site – South Africa. Map
Studio. ISBN 1-86809-743-9
Berger, L.R. and Smilg, J.S. (2005) the Handling of Medical Emergencies in the Cradle of Humankind. Prime
Origins Publishing and The National Lottery. ISBN 0-620-34248-x
Berger, L.R. (2005) Working and Guiding in the Cradle of Humankind. Prime Origins Publishing and The
National Lottery. ISBN 0-620-31866-x
Berger, L.R. (2005) Advances in the exploration, excavation and understanding of the fossil bearing localities in
the “Cradle of Humankind”. In From Tools to Symbols. From Early Hominids to Modern Humans, F. d’Errico & L.
R. Backwell (Eds). Wits University Press. Johannesburg.
Berger, L.R. and Hilton-Barber, B. (2005) Kruger Park Animal Map. Prime Origins. Cape Town.
Hilton-Barber, B. and Berger, L.R. (2005) Kruger Park Bird Map. Prime Origins. Cape Town.
Berger, L.R. and Hilton-Barber, B. (2006) A guide to Sterkfontein – the Cradle of Humankind. Struik. Cape Town.
isbn 1 7700 257 8
Published Conference Proceedings/ Keynote addresses
Berger, L.R. (1994) The crown jewels of Archaeology. Signature, 6, 16-17.
Berger, L.R. (1994) Gladysvale unveiled: a three million year record of the human adventure. Optima. 40, 38-40.
Berger, L.R. (1997) Tracking the Footsteps of Eve: new discoveries in human origins in South Africa. Address
to the National Geographic Society, Washington. www.nationalgeographic.com
Berger, L.R. (2001) The southern African early hominid record and indications of emerging
complexities in human evolution. The Juan Comas X International Colloquium on Physical
Anthropology. Vol. X of Biological Anthropology Studies journal.
Berger, L.R. (2002) Early hominid body proportions and emerging complexities in human
evolution. Adolf Schultz Symposium, Zurich. Evol. Anthrop.
Berger, L.R. (2002) On the humanity of humans. National Geographic.com. WWW.Nationalgeographic.com/news
Berger, L.R. (2002) Wine at the Dawn of Civilization. Wine Enth. Vol.x. pp.
Technical/Research reports
Berger, L.R. (1994) South Africa’s fossil treasures. Arena. 3.
Berger, L.R. and Keyser, A. (1994) Guide to the Gladysvale Early Hominid Site. Field Excursion guide for the
Southern African Palaeontological Association’s congress
Berger, L.R. (1996) Chronos report. Prepared on behalf of Wits University for the Premier and Cabinet of the
Northwest Province.
Berger, L.R. (1997) Annual Report of the Palaeo-Anthropology Research Group. University of the Witwatersrand
Berger, L.R. Excursion guide to Gladysvale (1998). Guide to Excursions, 1998 Dual Congress, South Africa
Berger, L.R. (1998) Annual Report of the Palaeo-Anthropology Research Group. University of the Witwatersrand
Berger, L.R. Excursion guide to Gladysvale (1999) Excursion Guide, INQUA Congress, Durban, South Africa
Berger, L.R. (1999) Annual Report of the Palaeo-Anthropology Research Group. University of the Witwatersrand
Berger, L.R. (2001) Palaeontology: the study of life in the past. Learning Online Encyclopedia SAE.
Berger, L.R. (2001) An ape by any other name. National Geographic.com . http://news.nationalgeographic.
com/news/2001/12/1204_hominin_id.html
Berger, L.R. (2002) Not seeing the elephants for the trees. National Geographic.com. http://news.
nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/12/1217_leeelephant.html
Berger, L.R. (2002) Fossil Access: A challenge to discoverers and curators. Amer. Assoc. Phys. Anthrop.
Newsletter. vol. 3, No. 2, 2.
Other Relevant Output
Popular articles/reviews
Berger, L.R. (1994) South Africa’s fossil treasures. Arena. 3.
Berger, L.R. (1995) the Ape Men. Sunday Times book review
Berger, L.R. (2006) Megalodon. Divestyle. Sept – Oct.
Berger, L.R. (2006) Diving for Fossils. Divestyle Sept. – Oct.
Published Conference Abstracts/keynote addresses
Berger, L.R. (1989) Rock Fence: A survey of an Archaic Indian site in southeast Georgia. Georgia Academy of
Sciences. (best student paper)
Berger,L.R. (1990) Preliminary analysis of the functional morphology of the shoulder girdle in extant primates.
Anatomical Society of southern Africa.
Berger, L.R. (1992) A preliminary estimate of the age of the Gladysvale Australopithecine site. Palaeontological
Society of southern Africa (Best Paper by a Young Scientist).
Berger, L.R. & Parkington, J.P. (1994) A new Pleistocene hominid bearing locality at Hoedjiespunt, South Africa,
SA Archaeological Bulletin.
Berger, L.R. & Menter, C. (1994) Results of recent excavations of the Gladysvale early hominid site.
Proceedings of the 1994 Palaeontological society of southern Africa.
Berger, L.R. (1994) New hominid discoveries and recent advances in palaeo-anthropology in South Africa.
Proceedings of the 1994 Palaeontological society of southern Africa.
Berger, L.R. (1995) New fossil hominid shoulder girdle elements from Sterkfontein. Proceedings of the 64th
meeting of the American Association of Physical Antrhopologists.
Berger, L.R. (1995) An ape-like fossil tibia from Sterkfontein, South Africa. Proceedings of the
Paleoanthropology Society of America.
Berger, L.R. (1995) Is South Africa the Cradle of Humankind? The South African Science and Religion Forum.
McHenry, H.M. & Berger, L.R. (1996) Ape-like body proportions in A. africanus and their implications for the
origin of the genus Homo. Proceedings of the 65th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical
Anthropologists.
Berger, L.R. & Parkington, J. (1997) 320k year old fossil human remains from Hoedjiespunt, South Africa.
Proceedings of the 66th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.
Berger, L.R. (1997) Tracking the Footsteps of Eve: new discoveries in human origins in South Africa. Address
to the National Geographic Society, Washington.
Berger, L.R. and Tobias, P.V. (1998) New insight into the post-cranial anatomy of Australopithecus africanus.
Proceedings of the Dual Congress 1998, South Africa.
DeRuiter, D. And Berger, L.R. (1998) Leopards as taphonomic agents in dolomitic caves – implications for bone
accumulations in the hominid bearing deposits of South Africa. Proceedings of the Dual Congress 1998, South
Africa.
Isler, K., Hausler, M., Schmid, P. Berger, L.R. (1998) 3d-digital mapping of the early hominid site at Gladysvale
Cave, South Africa. Proceedings of the Dual Congress 1998, South Africa.
McHenry, H.M. & Berger, L.R. (1998) Limb lengths and missing links: body proportions in Australopithecus.
Proceedings of the Dual Congress 1998, South Africa.
McHenry, H.M., Latham, J & Berger, L.R. (1999) Cross-sectional analysis of femora Proceedings of the 68th
Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.
Steininger, C. and Berger, L.R. (2000) Cooper’s cave: a hominid bearing Plio-Pleistocene site. Palaeontological
Society of southern Africa.
Steininger, C. and Berger, L.R. (2000) Cooper’s cave: a hominid bearing Plio-Pleistocene site. Proceedings
of the 69th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.
D.J. de Ruiter & L.R. Berger: Recently recovered hominid fossils from Sterkfontein, South Africa, in collections of
the Transvaal Museum. Palaeontological Society of southern Africa.
Berger, L.R. (2000) Australopithecine body proportions and the evolution of the genus Homo. Palaeontological
Society of southern Africa.
de Ruiter, D.J. and Berger, L.R. (2000) Preliminary analysis of the first ever recovered cranial base of
Paranthropus robustus Canadian Association of Physical Anthropologists.
Menter, C.G., Keyser, A.W., Moggi-Cecchi, J., Pickering, T.R. & Berger, L.R. (2000) A report on the hominid
material from the site of Drimolen, South Africa. Palaeontological Society of southern Africa.
Berger, L.R. (2000) It’s the end of the world as we know it. The human origins conference, South Africa
Berger, L.R. (2000) The southern African early hominid record and indications of emerging
complexities in human evolution. The Juan Comas X International Colloquium on Physical Anthropology. Mexico
Staps. D. and Berger, L.R. (2000) Variability in the vertebral columns of early australopithecines. Germany
(2000) In the Footsteps of Eve – The Young Presidents Organization, Cape Town
(2000) Early hominid body proportions and emerging complexities in human evolution. Adolf Schultz
Symposium, Zurich.
(2000) Berger, L.R. (2000) It’s the end of the world as we know it. The human origins conference, University of
the Witwatersrand, South Africa
(2000) The southern African early hominid record and indications of emerging
complexities in human evolution. The Juan Comas X International Colloquium on Physical Anthropology. Mexico
(2000) In the footsteps of Eve: emerging evidence of human evolution from South Africa - Address to the Royal
Geographical Society, London.
Nigro, J.D., de Ruiter, D.J., Berger, L.R., and Ungar, P.S. (2001). A three-dimensional Geographic Information
System for Swartkrans. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Paleoanthropology Society, 2001, Kansas
City, MO. Abstract in Journal of Human Evolution 40: A15-A16.
Nigro, J.D., Limp, W.F., Kvamme, K.K., de Ruiter, D.J. and Berger, L.R. (2001). The creation of a three-
dimensional Geographic Information System for the early hominid site of Swartkrans. Paper presented at the
annual Computer Applications in Archaeology Meeting in Stockholm, Sweden.
de Ruiter, D.J. and Berger, L.R. (2001) The first-ever described intact cranial base of Paranthropus robustus.
Proceedings of the 70th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.
Berger, L.R. (2001) The Changing face of human evolution in Africa. The International Thereological
Conference, Sun City.
Berger, L.R. (2001) Humans and humanity., keynote, World Design Conference. Johannesburg, South Africa
Berger, L.R. (2001) On being human, keynote, National Executive MENSA, Krugersdorp, South Africa
Berger, L.R. (2001) Human origins and humanity, keynote, the SA Institute of Measurement and Controls
Berger, L.R., Mutter, R.J., Schmid, P., and Morlo, M. (2001) The Giant Hyaena Pachycrocuta brevirostris.
Society for Vertebrate Palaeontology.
Lacruz, R. and Berger, L.R. (2002) Interpretations of biostratigraphy, dating and faunal changes in the
Pleistocene aged hominin bearing deposits of the Gladysvale Cave, South Africa. Proceedings of the 71st
Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.
Berger, L.R., Steininger, C.M. and DeRuiter, D.J.(2002) new fossil hominin and faunal discoveries from the
Coopers site, Gauteng, South Africa. Proceedings of the 71st Annual Meeting of the American Association of
Physical Anthropologists.
Menter, C. and Berger, L.R. New fossil hominid humeral material from South Africa .(2002) Proceedings of the
71st Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.
D. Stynder, J. Moggi-Cecchi, L. Berger, J. Parkington.Human incisors and molars from the Late Pleistocene
hominid locality of Hoedjiespunt, South Africa. .(2002) Proceedings of the 71st Annual Meeting of the American
Association of Physical Anthropologists.
Churchill, S.E. and Berger, L.R. (2002) Body Size In Southern African Middle and Late Pleistocene Humans And
Island Biogeographic Models of Modern Human Origins. Human Origins and Disease Conference, Cold Spring
Harbor
Berger, L.R., Churchill, S. and de Ruiter, D. (2003) Plover's Lake: A hominin-bearing Middle Stone Age site in
the Witwatersrand area, South Africa. Proceedings of the 72nd Annual Meeting of the American Association of
Physical Anthropologists.
B. Zipfel, R. Kidd , L. Berger. (2003) Morphological variation in the metatarsus of modern and ancient Holocene
people from South Africa. Proceedings of the 72nd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical
Anthropologists.
Berger, L.R. 2004. Advances in the exploration, excavation and understanding of the fossil bearing localities in
the “Cradle of Humankind”. Geoscience Africa 2004, Abstract Volume, University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg, South Africa, p. 58
Lacruz, R., Turner, B., Berger, L.R. 2004. New Dinofelis (Carnivora, Machairodontinae) remains from
Sterkfontein valley sites and a taxonomic revision of the genus in southern Africa. Geoscience Africa 2004,
Abstract Volume, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, p.368.
Pickering, R., Hancox, P.J., Lee Thorp, J.A., Grun, R., McCulloch, M., Mortimer, G.E., Berger, L.R. 2004. A well-
dated record of terrestrial climate change and sedimentation for the last 500 Ka from Gladysvale Cave, South
Africa. Geoscience Africa 2004, Abstract Volume, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa,
p. 518.
Steininger, C. DeRuiter, D, Franklin, R. And Berger, L. 2006. New Hominids from Coopers Cave. Abstract
Volume, African Genesis, South Africa p. 88
Churchill, S.E., Berger, L.R. and Zondo, H. 2006. Body size and shape in southern African Middle Pleistocene
Homo. Abstract Volume, African Genesis, South Africa. p. 43.
Berger, L.R. 2006. Who killed the Taung Child? An eighty year old palaeo-mystery solved. Abstract Volume,
African Genesis, South Africa. p. 58.
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