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Effect of apartheid on foreign paleontological work in South Africa
DD1991 posted a topic in General Fossil Discussion
Hi, I wanted to ask whether apartheid in South Africa deterred many American and non-British European paleontologists from prospecting Mesozoic deposits in South Africa for fossils of dinosaurs and mammal relatives, but also prehistoric mammals, because maybe many American paleontologists (including African Americans) were so self-conscious of their country having made strides in civil rights legislation for African Americans and other non-white Americans to become a racially inclusive democracy that they were extremely reluctant to do paleontologist fieldwork in South Africa as long as the South African government did not treat blacks in South Africa as politically equal to South African whites. Just like the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution and the Iron Curtain, apartheid in South Africa could be another example of politics getting in the way of American paleontological fieldwork abroad.- 3 replies
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These newly described tracks in the Karoo basin are found in a sandstone layer sandwiched between basalts. This allowed dating to 183 million years ago. https://m.phys.org/news/2020-01-firewalkers-karoo-dinosaurs-animals-left.html
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The dinosaur graveyards of the Eastern Cape Province. Karoo Supergroup, South Africa
Oxytropidoceras posted a topic in Fossil News
Exploring the dinosaur graveyards of the Eastern Cape A chance discovery by a local shepherd has lead to a major scientific research program involving palaeontologists from South Africa, the UK and the US in the Karoo Basin. The area is proving to be one of the richest localities for vertebrate fossils in South Africa. by David Paul Ford, Oct 03, 2019 https://natureecoevocommunity.nature.com/users/317374-david-paul-ford/posts/54340-exploring-the-dinosaur-graveyards-of-the-eastern-cape Yours, Paul H.-
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