Jackson Stanley Kimambo

• Palaeontologist
• Postgraduate student at University of the Witwatersrand

In recent years, two hominin teeth were discovered by the Tanzania Human Origins Research (THOR) project at Olduvai Gorge, in northern Tanzania. Specimen OH 30B was discovered in 2021 in the Maiko Gully at the famous Frida Leakey Korongo (FLK) site, specifically in geological locality 45c (Hay, 1976), very close to where OH 30 was found in 1969 (Le...

Several porcupine taxa are reported from the middle Miocene to the early Holocene in the Old World. Among these, five species of the subfamily Hystricinae occurred in Africa approximately in the last 6 Ma: the extinct Hystrix makapanensis, Hystrix leakeyi, and Xenohystrix crassidens and the still living Hystrix africaeaustralis and Hystrix cristata...

In this study, we describe a new crocodile skull from the world-renowned palaeontological and archaeological site of Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania). The fossil, discovered and collected in 2016 during an annular solar eclipse and therefore nicknamed “Black Sun,” was found in a new trench excavated by the THOR (Tanzania Human Origins Research) team at sit...

Olduvai Gorge (northern Tanzania) is one of the best known and most iconic palaeontological and archaeological sites in the world. in more than a century of research it has yielded an impressive record of fossils and stone tools which stands as a compendium of human evolution in the context of environmental changes of east Africa in the last 2 Ma....

Khoekhoe pastoralists living in Gobabeb, in the arid Kuiseb River Valley of central-western Namibia, keep goats (Capra hircus). Several decades ago, palaeontologist C.K. Brain collected modern skeletal remains of goats from these villages. The goats were butchered using pocketknives with metal blades. We investigated the frequency of butchery marks...