Talk:Little Foot

...entered the cave for the food..?
The article currently states that australopithecus, like other animals, "entered the cave for the food". This opinion is attributed to Clarke but is contradicted by his statement in this article: http://www.scielo.org.za/pdf/sajs/v104n11-12/a1510412.pdf. It doesn't really make sense anyway; why would there be more food in the cave than outside? I think I'm going to be bold and delete the sentence. Maybe it comes from a misreading of a source? 79.103.98.89 (talk) 21:34, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

New data forthcoming
This is just a heads-up to mention that Clarke and others have four new papers in pre-print on the site Biorxiv.org (in the Paleontology section) awaiting completion of peer review, prior to publication in the Journal of Human Evolution (3 papers) and another journal (1 paper). Three other papers have already been accepted by JoHR. This information is taken from the current New Scientist magazine, 15 December 2018 pp 6–7. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 90.217.251.247 (talk) 17:41, 14 December 2018 (UTC)

Original discovery
The current text reads, "Four ankle bones of this specimen were collected in 1980 but were unidentified among numerous other mammal bones. Only after 1992, on initiative by Phillip Tobias, a large rock was blown up in the cave that contained an unusual accumulation of fossils. The fossils recovered were taken from the cave and scrutinized thoroughly by paleoanthropologist Ronald J. Clarke.[4]" It is unclear how the rock being blown up relates to the ankle bones - were they in the rock subsequently blown up while still at the cave, or is this describing the fate of two different batches of Little Foot bones (e.g. the ankle bones versus to lower right femur)? Agricolae (talk) 19:22, 9 March 2021 (UTC)

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