Conveners
Neutron Imaging III: Radiography and Tomography III
- Clément Zanolli (Multidisciplinary Laboratory, International Centre for Theoretical Physics)
- Stephany Potze (DITSONG National Museum of Natural History)
- Jacek Milczarek (National Centre for Nuclear Research)
- Burkhard Schillinger
- Frikkie De Beer (Necsa)
Ms
Stephanie Potze
(Plio-Pleistocene Palaeontology Section | Department of Vertebrates DITSONG: National Museum of Natural History)
10/09/2013, 13:10
NINMACH
Oral
The Cradle of Humankind World Heritage area is a richly fossiliferous karstic system found in the Krugersdorp region, Gauteng, South Africa. These karstic systems date from the Plio-Pleistocene (ca 1-4 mya) and have yielded many fossils, including hominids. Fossils are embedded in a cemented limestone matrix of sediment, known as breccia the density and composition of which varies greatly....
Dr
Burkhard Schillinger
(FRM II)
10/09/2013, 13:40
NINMACH
Oral
A string of limestone caves spans more than half the African continent. When ceilings caved in, the holes formed a deadly trap for animals and hominids. Fossils mixed over time with soils and limestone into a conglomerate called breccia, sealing the fossils away from oxygen. The Ditsong Museum in Pretoria, South Africa, has a research program to retrieve fossils from breccia both mechanically...
Mr
Frikkie De Beer
(Necsa)
10/09/2013, 14:00
NINMACH
Oral
The South African Nuclear Energy Corporation (Necsa) is situated within the Pelindaba complex at the North East corner of the “Cradle of Human Kind”. It is on the same dolomitic band that houses the fossil deposits and would have been included within the Cradle were it not a nuclear facility. Geologically it is part of the Cradle and spatially it is right next to the Cradle. The Radiation...
Dr
Jacek Milczarek
(National Centre for Nuclear Research)
10/09/2013, 14:40
NINMACH
Oral
The remnants of Przeworsk culture (from 2th century BC to 3rd century AD) have been found in many sites of Poland (Lower Silesia, Greater Poland, central Poland, and western Mazovia and Lesser Poland) for almost a century. Since the Przeworsk culture objects have some features of the Roman and Scandinavian products the studies of these artefacts are of unquestionable importance for European...
Dr
Lucia Mancini
(Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., Basovizza (Trieste), Italy)
10/09/2013, 14:20
NINMACH
Oral
Dental remains usually represent the most common available evidence attesting of the life history of extinct taxa. Advances in comparative developmental morphology and microanatomy of extant and extinct primates show that a significant amount of valuable information for assessing their taxonomy, adaptive strategies, evolutionary pathways and phylogenetic relationships are preserved in the...
