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Approximate age:590,000 years old=average of minimum (0.400 Ma) and maximum (0.780 Ma)
Date based on: ESR on Bed 3 mandible and paleomag See map of sites with similar ages
Dating reference: Oakley, K. (2007). Frameworks for dating fossil man: Aldine, R. Gr¨un, ?Direct dating of South African human fossils,? in
Proceedings of the 15th Biennial Conference of the Southern
African Society for Quaternary Research, Johannesburg, South
Africa, 2003.
Hominids:
Archaeology:Acheulean
Important specimens: hominid radius, mandible fragment, fauna, Acheulean and MSA occurences
Notes: McNabb [J. McNabb, The ESA Stone Tool Assemblage from the Cave
of Hearths, Beds 1-3. in The Cave of Hearths: Makapan
Middle Pleistocene Research Project, J. McNabb and A. G.
M. Sinclair, Eds., University of Southampton Series in
Archaeology 1, pp. 75-104, Archaeopress, Oxford, UK, 2009.] suggests it has no Fauresmith, MSA [points, prepared cores], or blades
Location: Makapansgat, northern Transvaal, South Africa
Map location/coordinates reference: Latham, A. G., & Herries, A. I. R. (2004). The formation and sedimentary infilling of the Cave of Hearths and Historic Cave complex, Makapansgat, South Africa. Geoarchaeology, 19(4), 323-342.
Key references: Tobias PV (1971) Human skeletal remains from the Cave of Hearths, Makapansgat, northern Transvaal. American journal of physical anthropology 34(3): 335-367.
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