Bernhard Zipfel

University Curator of Fossil and Rock Collections

Publications


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New fossil Bovidae (Mammalia: Artiodactyla) from Kromdraai Unit P, South Africa and their implication for biochronology and hominin palaeoecology


R. Hanon, J-B. Fourvel, R. Sambo, N. Maringa, C. Steininger, B. Zipfel, J. Braga

Quaternary Science Reviews , vol. 331, 2024, p. 108621


New hominin fossils from Kromdraai and Drimolen inform early ontogeny of Paranthropus robustus


J. Braga, B. Wood, V. Zimmer, B. Moreno, C. Miller, F. Thackeray, B. Zipfel, F. Grine

Science Advances, 9, 2023, pp. ea65


An overlooked Australopithecus brain endocast from Makapansgat, South Africa


Z. Cofran, S. Hurst, A. Beaudet, B. Zipfel, ,

Journal of Human Evolution, vol. 178, 2023, p. 103346


Possible shod-hominin tracks on South Africa’s Cape coast?


C.W. Helm, M.G. Lockley, H.C. Cawthra, J.C. De Vynck, M.G. Dixon, R. Rust, Stear W., M. Van Tonder, B Zipfel

Ichnos, vol. 0(0), 2023, pp. 1-9


Assessing the need for a standardised paediatric assessment tool for podiatrists in South Africa


G. Jenkins, M. Purboo-Makan, B. Zipfel

The Foot, vol. 56, 2023, p. 102018


An Online Survey on User Perceptions of Natural Science Collections in South Africa


S. Ribeiro, T. Reynolds, B. Zipfel, M.S. Mothogoane, A. Magee

Bothalia , vol. 53(1), 2023, pp. a10


Overlooked or unimportant? An overview of the coprolite collections at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa


B. Zipfel, C. Montgomery, F.A. Neumann, L. Scott, J. Choiniere, P.J. Hancox,

Curator: the Museums Journal , vol. 65, 2023, pp. 1-16


Frontal sinuses and human evolution


A. Balzeau, L. Albessard-Ball, A. Kubicka, A. Filippo, A. Beaudet, E. Santos, T. Bienvenu, J. Arsuaga, A. Bartsiokas, L. Berger, J. M. Bermúdez de Castro, M. Brunet, K. Carlson, J. Daura, V. Gorgoulis, F. Grine, K. Harvati, J. Hawks, A. Herries, J. Hublin, J. Hui, R. Ives, J. A. Joordens, Y. Kaifu, M. Kouloukoussa, B. Léger, D. Lordkipanidze, A. Margvelashvili, J. M. Martin, M. Martinón‐Torres, H. May, A. Mounier, A. du Plessis, T. Rae, C. Röding, M. Sanz, P. Semal, D. Stratford, C. J. Stringer, M. Tawane, H. Temming, E. Tsoukala, J. Zilhão, B. Zipfel, L. Buck

Science advances, vol. 8(42), 2022, eabp.9767


A reappraisal of the Border Cave 1 cranium (KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)


A. Beaudet, F. d’Errico, L. Backwell, L. Wadley, B. Zipfel, P. de la Peña, H. Reyes-Centeno

Quaternary Science Reviews, vol. 282, 2022, p. 107451


Cochlear morphology of Indonesian Homo erectus from Sangiran.


A. Urciuoli, J. Kubat, L. Schisanowski, F. Schrenk, B. Zipfel, M. Tawane, L. Bam, D. Alba, O. Kullmer

Journal of human evolution, vol. 165, 2022, pp. 103163.


The Thorny Issue of African Porcupines: a New Mandible of Hystrix makapanensis from Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania) and Rediagnosis of the Species


B. Azzarà, M. Cherin, J. W. Adams, G. Boschian, M. Crotti, C. Denys, L. Fressoia, J. S. Kimambo, A. P. Kwekason, D. A. Iurino, G. Manzi, F. Masao, S. Melaku, S. Menconero, E. Mori, B. Zipfel

Journal of mammalian evolution, 2022


A new early hominin calcaneus from Kromdraai (South Africa)


C. Harper, B. Zipfel, J. DeSilva, E. McNutt, F. Thackeray, J. Braga

Journal of anatomy, vol. 241(2), 2022, pp. 500-517


Dental data challenge the ubiquitous presence of Homo in the Cradle of Humankind.


C. Zanolli, T.W. Davies, R. Joannes-Boyau, A. Beaudet, L. Bruxelles, F. de Beer, J. Hoffman, J. Hublin, K. Jakata, L. Kgasi, O. Kullmer, R. Macchiarelli, L. Pan, F. Schrenk, F. Santos, D. Stratford, M. Tawane, F. Thackeray, S. Xing, B. Zipfel, M. Skinner

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119 , 2022, pp. e2111212119


Clinical and Evolutionary Perspectives on the Primate Foot: A Historical and Contemporary View


D. Schmitt, B. Zipfel, R.E. Wunderlich

Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects., , 2022


The Kromdraai early hominin-bearing site. A review of recent findings


J. Braga, J. Thackeray, B. Zipfel

L'Anthropologie, 103054 , 2022


The Early Hominin Foot


J.M. DeSilva, E.J. McNutt, B. Zipfel

Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects, , Springer, Cham, 2022


The immature Homo naledi ilium from the Lesedi Chamber, Rising Star Cave, South Africa


Z. Cofran, C. Vansickle, R. Valenzuela, D. García‐Martínez, C. S. Walker, J. Hawks, B. Zipfel, S. A. Williams, L. Berger

American Journal of Biological Anthropology, vol. 179(1), 2022, pp. 3-17


The wounded forefoot - an evolutionary perspective


B. Zipfel

Wound Healing Southern Africa, vol. 14(1), 2021, pp. 28-31


Cochlear shape distinguishes southern African early hominin taxa with unique auditory ecologies


J. Braga, C. Samir, A. Fradi, Y. Feunteun, K. Jakata, V. Zimmer, B. Zipfel, J. Thackeray, M. Macé, B. Wood, F. Grine

Scientific reports, 2021


Mechanical loading of primate fingers on vertical rock surfaces


M. C. Everett, M. Elliott, D. Gaynor, A. Hill, J. Casana, B. Zipfel, J. DeSilva, N. Dominy

South African Journal of Science, 2021


Dysmorphic metatarsal parabola in diabetes, clinical examination and management: a narrative review


A.L.T. Thompson, B. Zipfel, C. Aldous

Journal of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes South Africa, : DOI: 10.1080/16089677.2021.1897226: 1-6. , 2021, pp. 1-6


Hominin Postcranial Remains from Sterkfontein, South Africa, 1969-1995


B. Zipfel, B.G. Richmond, C.V. Ward (Eds.)

B. Zipfel, B.G. Richmond, C.V. Ward, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2020


Metatarsals and pedal phalanges


B. Zipfel, R. Wunderlich

, , Oxford University Press, Oxford , 2020, pp 289-306.


Summary and synthesis


C. Ward, B. Zipfel

, Hominin Postcranial Remains from Sterkfontein, South Africa, 1936-1995, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2020, pp 335-340.


The partial skeletons


C. Ward, M. Haeusler, B. Zipfel

, Oxford University Press, Oxford., 2020, pp 33-36


Associated Australopithecus afarensis second and third metatarsals (A.L. 333-133) from Hadar, Ethiopia.


J. DeSilva, E. McNutt, B. Zipfel, C. Ward, W. H. Kimbel

Journal of human evolution, 2020


Tibia and fibula


K. Carlson, B. Zipfel, W. Jungers

, Hominin Postcranial Remains from Sterkfontein, South Africa, 1936-1995, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2020, pp 230-261.


The inner craniodental anatomy of the Papio specimen U.W. 88-886 from the Early Pleistocene site of Malapa, Gauteng, South Africa


F. Bouchet, A. Ribéron, Jason L. Heaton, J. Hoffman, L. Bam, K. Jakata, Mirriam Tawane, C. Tenailleau, B. Zipfel, Amélie Beaudet

2019


One small step: A review of Plio-Pleistocene hominin foot evolution.


J. DeSilva, E. McNutt, J. Benoit, B. Zipfel

American journal of physical anthropology, 2019


Using springbok (Antidorcas) dietary proxies to reconstruct inferred palaeovegetational changes over 2 million years in Southern Africa


L. Sewell, G. Merceron, P. Hopley, B. Zipfel, S. Reynolds

Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2019


Genetic data and radiocarbon dating question Plovers Lake as a Middle Stone Age hominin-bearing site


M. Lombard, H. Malmström, C. Schlebusch, E. Svensson, T. Günther, A. Munters, Alexandra Coutinho, Hanna Edlund, B. Zipfel, M. Jakobsson

Journal of Human Evolution, 2019


Cerebral blood flow rates in recent great apes are greater than in Australopithecus species that had equal or larger brains


R. Seymour, V. Bosiocic, E. Snelling, P. C. Chikezie, Q. Hu, T. J. Nelson, B. Zipfel, C. Miller

Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 2019


Flexion location of the first metatarsophalangeal joint and the location of forefoot bend in general purpose women's footwear.


A. Thompson, B. Zipfel, M. Muzigaba, C. Aldous

Foot and ankle surgery : official journal of the European Society of Foot and Ankle Surgeons, 2018


The evolution of the human foot


E. McNutt, B. Zipfel, J. DeSilva

Evolutionary anthropology, 2018


A quantification of calcaneal lateral plantar process position with implications for bipedal locomotion in Australopithecus.


Eve K. Boyle, E. McNutt, Tomohiko Sasaki, G. Suwa, B. Zipfel, J. DeSilva

Journal of human evolution, 2018


Osteopathology and insect traces in the Australopithecus africanus skeleton StW 431


E. J. Odes, A. H. Parkinson, P. Randolph-Quinney, B. Zipfel, K. Jakata, H. Bonney, L. Berger

2017


Trabecular architecture in the StW 352 fossil hominin calcaneus.


A. Zeininger, B. Patel, B. Zipfel, K. Carlson

Journal of human evolution, 2016


Homo naledi: a new species of hominin from the Dinaledi Chamber, South Africa


D. Ruiter, L. Berger, J. Hawks, S. Churchill, P. Schmid, Lucas K. Delezene, T. Kivell, H. Garvin, Scott A. Williams, J. DeSilva, M. Skinner, C. Musiba, N. Cameron, T. Holliday, W. Harcourt‐Smith, R. R. Ackermann, M. Bastir, B. Bogin, Debra R Bolter, Juliet K. Brophy, Zachary Cofran, K. Congdon, A. Dean, M. Dembo, M. Drapeau, Marina Elliott, Elen M. Feuerriegel, Daniel García‐Martínez, D. Green, Alia N. Gurtov, J. Irish, A. Kruger, Myra F. Laird, D. Marchi, Marc R. Meyer, S. Nalla, E. Negash, C. Orr, Davorka Radovčić, L. Schroeder, Jill E. Scott, Z. Throckmorton, M. Tocheri, C. Vansickle, Christopher S. Walker, P. Wei, B. Zipfel

2016


Earliest hominin cancer: 1.7-million-year- old osteosarcoma from Swartkrans Cave, South Africa


E. J. Odes, P. Randolph-Quinney, M. Steyn, Z. Throckmorton, J. Smilg, B. Zipfel, T. Augustine, F. D. Beer, J. Hoffman, Ryan D. Franklin, L. Berger

2016


Global climate perturbations during the Permo-Triassic mass extinctions recorded by continental tetrapods from South Africa


K. Rey, R. Amiot, F. Fourel, T. Rigaudier, F. Abdala, M. Day, V. Fernandez, F. Fluteau, C. France‐Lanord, B. Rubidge, Roger M. H. Smith, P. Viglietti, B. Zipfel, C. Lécuyer

2016


Homo naledi, a new species of the genus Homo from the Dinaledi Chamber, South Africa


L. Berger, J. Hawks, D. D. de Ruiter, S. Churchill, P. Schmid, Lucas K. Delezene, T. Kivell, H. Garvin, Scott A. Williams, J. DeSilva, M. Skinner, C. Musiba, N. Cameron, T. Holliday, W. Harcourt‐Smith, R. R. Ackermann, M. Bastir, B. Bogin, Debra R Bolter, Juliet K. Brophy, Zachary Cofran, K. Congdon, A. Deane, M. Dembo, M. Drapeau, Marina Elliott, Elen M. Feuerriegel, Daniel García‐Martínez, D. Green, Alia N. Gurtov, J. Irish, A. Kruger, Myra F. Laird, D. Marchi, Marc R. Meyer, S. Nalla, E. Negash, C. Orr, Davorka Radovčić, L. Schroeder, Jill E. Scott, Z. Throckmorton, M. Tocheri, C. Vansickle, Christopher S. Walker, P. Wei, B. Zipfel

eLife, 2015


The foot of Homo naledi


W. Harcourt‐Smith, Z. Throckmorton, K. Congdon, B. Zipfel, A. Deane, M. Drapeau, S. Churchill, L. Berger, J. DeSilva

Nature communications, 2015


Recent origin of low trabecular bone density in modern humans


H. Chirchir, T. Kivell, C. Ruff, J. Hublin, K. Carlson, B. Zipfel, B. Richmond

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2014


The Lower Limb and Mechanics of Walking in Australopithecus sediba


J. DeSilva, K. Holt, S. Churchill, K. Carlson, Christopher S. Walker, B. Zipfel, L. Berger

Science, 2013


A complete second metatarsal (StW 89) from Sterkfontein Member 4, South Africa.


J. DeSilva, Daniel J. Proctor, B. Zipfel

Journal of human evolution, 2012


The Foot and Ankle of Australopithecus sediba


B. Zipfel, J. DeSilva, R. Kidd, K. Carlson, S. Churchill, L. Berger

Science, 2011


Manual and manipulative therapy compared to night splint for symptomatic hallux abducto valgus: an exploratory randomised clinical trial.


M. du Plessis, B. Zipfel, J. Brantingham, G. Parkin-Smith, P. Birdsey, Gary A Globe, T. Cassa

Foot, 2011


The Olduvai Hominid 8 foot: adult or subadult?


J. DeSilva, B. Zipfel, A. V. Van Arsdale, M. Tocheri

Journal of human evolution, 2010


Tooth chipping can reveal bite forces and diets of fossil hominins | NIST


P. Constantino, J. Lee, H. Chai, B. Zipfel, Charles Ziscovici, B. Lawn, Peter J.F. Lucas

2010


Tooth chipping can reveal the diet and bite forces of fossil hominins


P. Constantino, J. Lee, H. Chai, B. Zipfel, Charles Ziscovici, B. Lawn, P. Lucas

Biology Letters, 2010


Possible Brucellosis in an Early Hominin Skeleton from Sterkfontein, South Africa


R. D’Anastasio, B. Zipfel, J. Moggi-Cecchi, R. Stanyon, L. Capasso

PloS one, 2009


Hominin first metatarsals (SKX 5017 and SK 1813) from Swartkrans: a morphometric analysis.


B. Zipfel, R. Kidd

Homo : internationale Zeitschrift fur die vergleichende Forschung am Menschen, 2006


Attitudes and knowledge about AIDS among podiatry students in South Africa


B. Zipfel, G. Badenhorst

Australasian Journal of Podiatric Medicine, vol. 36, 2001, pp. 39-44


Forefoot varus and its influence on subtalar joint pronation


B. Zipfel

South African Journal of Sports Medicine, vol. 4, 1997, pp. 4-5


Illiotibial band friction syndrome - theories of etiology


B. Zipfel

Orthopaedics and Podiatry Southern Africa, vol. 3, 1993, pp. 28-30

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