Charles Kimberlin Brain

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#1776

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#2888

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#171

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#255

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Bachelors Geology University of Cape Town

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According to Wikipedia, Charles Kimberlin Brain , also known as C. K. "Bob" Brain, was a South African paleontologist who studied and taught African cave taphonomy for more than fifty years. Biography Brain was born in Salisbury, Northern Rhodesia on 7 May 1931.

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Charles Kimberlin Brain's Published Works

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The Hunters or the Hunted?: An Introduction to African Cave Taphonomy (1983) (1201)
The Hunters or the Hunted (1981) (349)
Swartkrans. A cave's chronicle of early man (1994) (281)
Evidence from the Swartkrans cave for the earliest use of fire (1988) (244)
Diet of Australopithecus robustus at Swartkrans from stable carbon isotopic analysis (1994) (230)
The contribution of Namib desert Hottentots to an understanding of australopithecine bone accumulations (1969) (225)
New Finds at the Swartkrans Australopithecine Site (1970) (166)
The Transvaal ape-man-bearing cave deposits (1958) (163)
Isotopic evidence for dietary differences between two extinct baboon species from Swartkrans (1989) (151)
Hottentot food remains and their meaning in the interpretation of fossil bone assemblages (1967) (125)
Beyond leopards: tooth marks and the contribution of multiple carnivore taxa to the accumulation of the Swartkrans Member 3 fossil assemblage. (2004) (114)
Recently identified postcranial remains of Paranthropus and early Homo from Swartkrans Cave, South Africa. (2001) (102)
Owls, caves and fossils. Predation, preservation and accumulation of small mammal bones in caves, with an analysis of the Pleistocene cave faunas from Westbury-Sub-Mendip, Somerset, U.K. (1991) (102)
New evidence of early hominids, their culture and environment from the Swartkrans cave, South Africa (1988) (95)
New Finds at the Swartkrans Australopithecine Site (contd): More Evidence of an Advanced Hominid at Swartkrans (1970) (93)
The contribution of limb bone fracture patterns to reconstructing early hominid behaviour at Swartkrans cave (South Africa): archaeological application of a new analytical method (2005) (89)
Cosmogenic nuclide burial dating of hominin-bearing Pleistocene cave deposits at Swartkrans, South Africa (2014) (88)
Bone weathering and the problem of bone pseudo-tools (1967) (80)
The first animals : ca. 760-million-year-old sponge-like fossils from Namibia : research article (2012) (76)
Breathing life into fossils : taphonomic studies in honor of C.K. (Bob) Brain (2007) (71)
Taphonomy of ungulate ribs and the consumption of meat and bone by 1.2-million-year-old hominins at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania (2013) (68)
Disentangling Early Stone Age palimpsests: determining the functional independence of hominid- and carnivore-derived portions of archaeofaunas. (2004) (67)
Testing the “shift in the balance of power” hypothesis at Swartkrans, South Africa: Hominid cave use and subsistence behavior in the Early Pleistocene (2008) (59)
New data and ideas on the foraging behaviour of Early Stone Age hominids at Swartkrans Cave, South Africa (2004) (53)
Observations on the Behaviour of Vervet Monkeys Cercopithecus Aethiops (1965) (45)
New hominid fossils from Member 1 of the Swartkrans formation, South Africa. (2012) (42)
The Probable Role of Leopards as Predators of the Swartkrans Australopithecines (1969) (38)
Newly discovered fossil- and artifact-bearing deposits, uranium-series ages, and Plio-Pleistocene hominids at Swartkrans cave, South Africa. (2009) (31)
An Interpretation of the Bone Assemblage from the Kromdraai Australopithecine Site, South Africa (1975) (30)
Faunal Remains from the Bushman Rock Shelter, Eastern Transvaal (1969) (28)
Hominid evolution and climactic change (1981) (21)
A Preliminary Account of the Redcliff Stone Age Cave Site in Rhodesia (1967) (20)
Rotifers of the genus Proales from saline springs in the Namib desert, with the description of a new species (1993) (20)
Kafuan Stone Artefacts in the Post-Australopithecine Breccia at Makapansgat (1955) (18)
New Evidence for Climatic Change during Middle and Late Stone Age Times in Rhodesia (1969) (17)
A new absolute date from Swartkrans Cave for the oldest occurrences of Paranthropus robustus and Oldowan stone tools in South Africa. (2021) (14)
Some observations on Cloudina, a terminal Proterozoic index fossil from Namibia (2001) (14)
CHAMAELEO DILEPIS—A Study on its Biology and Behaviour (1961) (13)
New early Pleistocene hominin teeth from the Swartkrans Formation, South Africa. (2016) (12)
An Attempt to Reconstruct the Behaviour of Australopithecines: The Evidence for Interpersonal Violence (1972) (11)
Insect Pests and their Control in South Africa. (10)
Microbial osteolysis in an Early Pleistocene hominin (Paranthropus robustus) from Swartkrans, South Africa. (2015) (10)
Rotifers of the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park, South Africa (1995) (10)
The Use of Microfaunal Remains as Habitat Indicators in the Namib (1974) (9)
A short account of the reptiles of the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park (1958) (7)
Do we owe our intelligence to a predatory past? (2015) (7)
From myth to methodology (1982) (6)
Host Plants of the Tobacco Aphis, Myzus persicae. (1940) (6)
Swartkrans as a case study in African cave taphonomy (1980) (6)
Field observation on lizards ( Scincidae: Mabuya ) in the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park (1969) (5)
Contribution to the knowledge of mealybugs, genus Pseudococcus, in the vicinity of cape Town, South Africa. (5)
The Importance of Predation to the Course of Human and Other Animal Evolution (1995) (5)
Note on the Breeding of the South African Skink, Typhlosaurus lineatus Boulenger (1959) (4)
Skeletons in the cupboard (1987) (4)
Interpretive problems in a search for micro-invertebrate fossils from a neoproterozoic limestone in Namibia (2001) (4)
Presidential Address Interpreting the bone accumulations from the Sterkfontein Valley caves: A case study in quaternary research (1978) (3)
A Later African Chelles-Acheul Site near Nakop, South Kalahari (1955) (3)
Raymond Dart and our African origins (2003) (2)
Mating in the South African Mole Snake, Pseudaspis cana (Linnaeus) (1959) (2)
Comments on the Namib's past (1984) (2)
The importance of Nama Group sediments and fossils to the debate about animal origins (1997) (2)
What taphonomically oriented research at Swartkrans caves reveals about early hominid behavior (2010) (2)
On the Hemipenis of the Mole Snake, Pseudaspis cana (Linn) (1960) (2)
Comments on a Visit to Makapansgat Limeworks, December 1962 (1965) (1)
The contribution of Alun R. Hughes to the early development of cave taphonomy: a tribute (1991) (1)
Some adaptations for survival by African hominids during the last five million years (1987) (1)
The three ages of fire (2001) (1)
Trees and wild flowers on the Rhodesian farm. Part XII. (1940) (1)
A perspective on the PAST : reviews of current issues and research findings : human origins research in South Africa (2003) (1)
The Coceidae of South Africa. (0)
The geology of the Transvaal ape-manbearing cave deposits. (1956) (0)
African ancestors (1984) (0)
Report on Typhus Conditions in Native Dwellings. (0)
Report on the Southern Rhodesia Trypanosomiasis Committee and Bureau. (1937) (0)
Detecting decay (1990) (0)
OBSERVATIONS ON THE BIRTH OF YOUNG CHAMAELEO JACKSONI (1962) (0)
Bare bones of a life (2002) (0)
The Mammals of the Southern African Sub-region: R. H. N. Smithers (2005) (0)
Presidential address: taphonomy as an aid to African palaeontology (1981) (0)
John Talbot Robinson Hon. FRSSAf (2004) (0)
100 Years of the Annals of the Transvaal Museum, 1908-2008 : historical notes (2008) (0)
Were our early ancestors murderers and head-hunters? A prehistoric detective story : cover story (2009) (0)
Basil Cooke's contributions to our understanding of South African cave deposits and fossil fauna (2006) (0)
A preliminary report on the cotton pests of South Africa. (0)
Contribution to the study of mealy bugs of the Tribe Pseudococcini (Coccidae) with special reference to the genus Pseudococcus (0)

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