New cosmogenic burial ages for Sterkfontein Member 2 Australopithecus and Member 5 Oldowan

Nature

Volumn 522, Issue 7554, 2015, Pages 85-88

  Granger, Darryl E ^a   Gibbon, Ryan J ^b   Kuman, Kathleen ^c   Clarke, Ronald J ^c   Bruxelles, Laurent ^c,d,e   Caffee, Marc W ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^d French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (Inrap)   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ TOULOUSE JEAN JAURÈS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM 26; BERYLLIUM; BERYLLIUM 10; ISOSORBIDE DINITRATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ALUMINUM; RADIOISOTOPE;

ARCHAEOLOGY; CAVE; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; HOMINID; INFILL; PALEOMAGNETISM; SKELETON; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

AGE DETERMINATION; ARTICLE; AUSTRALOPITHECUS AFARENSIS; CAVE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); COSMIC RADIATION; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; EAST AFRICAN; FOSSIL HOMINID; HISTORY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POSTHUMOUS CARE; PRECAMBRIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETON; SOUTH AFRICA; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STONE ANALYSIS; STRATIGRAPHY; AFRICA; ANALYSIS; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; FOSSIL; HOMINID; PALEONTOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RADIOMETRIC DATING; SEDIMENT; SKULL; TIME; TOOL USE;

SOUTH AFRICA;

AUSTRALOPITHECUS; AUSTRALOPITHECUS AFARENSIS;

AFRICA, EASTERN; ALUMINUM; ANIMALS; BERYLLIUM; BURIAL; FOSSILS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HOMINIDAE; PALEONTOLOGY; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOMETRIC DATING; SKELETON; SKULL; SOUTH AFRICA; TIME FACTORS; TOOL USE BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84930672504     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature14268     Document Type: Article

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