Lower Pliocene Hominid Remains from Sterkfontein
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Publication Date
April 2003
Publication Title
Science
Volume Number
300
Issue Number
5619
Abstract
Cosmogenic aluminum-26 and beryllium-10 burial dates of low-lying fossiliferous breccia in the caves at Sterkfontein, South Africa, show that associated hominid fossils accumulated in the Lower Pliocene. These dates indicate that the skeleton StW 573 and newly discovered specimens from Jacovec Cavern have much the same age: approximately 4 million years. These specimens are thus of an age similar to Australopithecus anamensis from East Africa.
Geographic Subject
South Africa
Document Type
Article
Language
English
Notes
Science, Vol. 300, no. 5619 (2003-04-25).
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SFS0067337_00001
Recommended Citation
Partridge, T. C.; Granger, D. E.; and Caffee, M. W., "Lower Pliocene Hominid Remains from Sterkfontein" (2003). KIP Articles. 3234.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/kip_articles/3234
