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Osteodontokeratic culture
Archaeological hypothesis
The Osteodontokeratic ("bone-tooth-horn", Greek and Latin derivation) culture (ODK) is a hypothesis that was developed by Prof.
Raymond Dart (who identified the Taung child fossil in 1924, and published the find in Nature Magazine in 1925),[1] which detailed the predatory habits of Australopith species in South Africa involving the manufacture and use of osseous implements.
Neuroscientific research commenced in Australia about a decade before the colonies were united as a federation in
Dart envisaged Australopithecus africanus, known from Taung and Sterkfontein caves, and Australopithecus prometheus (now classified as Au. africanus) from Makapansgat, as carnivorous, cannibalistic predators who utilized bone and horn implements to hunt various animals, such as antelopes and primates, as well as other Australopiths.
History
In 1922, Wilfred Eitzman, a local schoolteacher, visited the Makapansgat Limeworks in Limpopo, South Africa, where he collected a number of fossil remains, including those of extinct baboon sp