Lower Pliocene hominid remains from Sterkfontein

被引：147

作者：

Partridge, TC

Granger, DE

Caffee, MW

Clarke, RJ

机构：

[1] Univ Witwatersrand, Sterkfontein Res Unit, ZA-2050 Johannesburg, South Africa

[2] Univ Witwatersrand, Climatol Res Grp, ZA-2050 Johannesburg, South Africa

[3] Purdue Univ, Dept Earth & Atmospher Sci, W Lafayette, IN 47907 USA

[4] Purdue Univ, Dept Phys, W Lafayette, IN 47907 USA

[5] Univ Witwatersrand, Sch Med, Sterkfontein Res Unit, ZA-2193 Johannesburg, South Africa

来源：

SCIENCE | 2003年 / 300卷 / 5619期

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D O I：

10.1126/science.1081651

中图分类号：

O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];

学科分类号：

07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;

摘要：

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.

引用

页码：607 / 612

页数：6

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