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Approximate age:2,840,000 years old=average of minimum (1.5 Ma) and maximum (4.18 Ma)
Date based on: Biochron and Paleomag See map of sites with similar ages
Dating reference: Balter, V., Blichert-Toft, J., Braga, J., Telouk, P., Thackeray, F., & Albarède, F. (2007). U-Pb dating of fossil enamel from the Swartkrans Pleistocene hominid site, South Africa. Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
Hominids: Australopithecus africanus
Archaeology:
Important specimens:
Notes: Berger et al; AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 119:192?197 (2002); cience 25 April 2003:
Vol. 300. no. 5619, pp. 607 - 612
DOI: 10.1126/science.1081651 ; Coordinates from Google Earth
Location: Sterkfontein, Cradle of Humankind, South Africa
Map location/coordinates reference: Brain, C. K. (1958). The Transvaal ape-man bearing cave deposits. Transvaal Museum Memoir 11. 1967 The Transvaal Museum's fossil project at Swartkrans. South African Journal of Science, 63, 378-384.
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