The impact of a date for understanding the importance of Homo naledi

Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 125-128

  Hawks, John ^a,b   Berger, Lee R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Dinaledi Chamber; geochronology; hominin; palaeoanthropology; Rising Star cave

Indexed keywords

EID: 84967153320     PISSN: 0035919X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0035919X.2016.1178186     Document Type: Article

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