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The new hominid skeleton from Sterkfontein, South Africa: age and preliminary assessment

✍ Scribed by Timothy C. Partridge; John Shaw; David Heslop; Ronald J. Clarke

Book ID
102659647
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1999
Tongue
English
Weight
678 KB
Volume
14
Category
Article
ISSN
0267-8179

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✦ Synopsis

A new hominid skeleton from Sterkfontein Member 2 attaches to foot bones recovered from loose blocks during the 1980s and first described in 1995. Several flowstone horizons are present above and below the skeleton and have given clear palaeomagnetic signatures. Five changes in magnetic polarity have been identified; when constrained by the available biostratigraphy, this sequence can be placed confidently between 3.22 and 3.58 Ma. Interpolation of sedimentation rates over the small intervals between reversals allows this range to be reduced to 3.30-3.33 Ma. The skeleton is thus the oldest yet discovered and is considered to belong to a species of Australopithecus other than africanus.

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