Revised age estimates of Australopithecus-bearing deposits at Sterkfontein, South Africa

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Revisiting the Developmental Stage and Age-at-Death of the “Mrs. Ples” (Sts 5) and Sts 14 Specimens from Sterkfontein (South Africa): Do They Belong to the Same Individual?

✍ Alejandro Bonmatí; Juan-Luis Arsuaga; Carlos Lorenzo 📂 Article 📅 2008 🏛 Wiley (John Wiley & Sons) 🌐 English ⚖ 914 KB

## Abstract During the 1947 fieldwork season, Member 4 (2‐3 My) of the South African Sterkfontein site yielded two important __Australopithecus africanus__ fossils: a cranium popularly nicknamed “Mrs. Ples” (Sts 5), and a partial skeleton (Sts 14). Previous reports have proposed that Sts 5 was a no