GLADYSVALE - 1ST EARLY HOMINID SITE DISCOVERED IN SOUTH-AFRICA SINCE 1948

被引：32

作者：

BERGER, LR ^{[1
]}

KEYSER, AW ^{[1
]}

TOBIAS, PV ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] DEPT GEOL SURVEY,PRETORIA 0001,SOUTH AFRICA

来源：

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY | 1993年 / 92卷 / 01期

关键词：

SOUTHERN TRANSVAAL HOMINIDS; AUSTRALOPITHECINE;

D O I：

10.1002/ajpa.1330920109

中图分类号：

Q98 [人类学];

学科分类号：

030303 ;

摘要：

We report here the discovery of fossil hominid teeth at Gladysvale, near Johannesburg in the southern Transvaal. This find makes the site the seventh in South Africa to yield australopithecine remains and the first new early hominid-bearing locality to be found in this region since 1948. Apart from the hominid specimens, our excavations at Gladysvale have added appreciably to the abundant Plio-Pleistocene fauna previously recorded from the cave deposit. The fauna indicates that savanna conditions prevailed during deposition of at least part of the fill. Preliminary faunal dating gives an age of deposition of between c1.7 and c2.5 mya. (C) 1993 Wiley-Liss, Inc.

引用

页码：107 / 111

页数：5

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