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.

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South Africa

Document Type

Article

Language

English

Notes

Science, Vol. 300, no. 5619 (2003-04-25).

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SFS0067337_00001

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