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Materials Collected By The Southern Branch Of The Uc Africa Expedition With A Report On Previously Unpublished Plio-Pleistocene Fossil Localities, Tesla A. Monson, Marianne F. Brasil, Leslea J. Hlusko

Anthropology Faculty and Staff Publications

From 1947 to 1948, paleontologists from the University of California Museum of Paleontology (UCMP), Charles Camp and Frank Peabody, led the southern branch of the University of California’s Africa Expedition. While in South Africa, Camp and Peabody collected thousands of specimens excavated from more than 70 sites, 40 of which make up the Plio-Pleistocene South African assemblage at the UCMP. Materials collected by researchers accompanying the expedition are held at numerous repositories on the University of California Berkeley campus including the UCMP, the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (MVZ), the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology and the University of California’s …