The graveyard of Liternum, near Naples, was in use between the first century B.C.E. and the third century C.E.

The wear of the teeth suggests that A. africanus ate fruits and foliage. Believed to be roughly the same size as A. afarensis, A. robustus had a large, "robust" (heavier, thicker) skull ...

They collected this material from the tooth enamel of an Australopithecus africanus individual whose remains were found in a South African cave decades ago. The method they used, called ...