The age of Homo naledi and associated sediments in the Rising Star Cave, South Africa

The age of Homo naledi and associated sediments in the Rising Star Cave, South Africa

New ages for flowstone, sediments and fossil bones from the Dinaledi Chamber are presented. We combined optically stimulated luminescence dating of sediments with U-Th and palaeomagnetic analyses of flowstones to establish that all sediments containing Homo naledi fossils can be allocated to a singl...

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Main Authors: Paul HGM Dirks, Eric M Roberts, Hannah Hilbert-Wolf, Jan D Kramers, John Hawks, Anthony Dosseto, Mathieu Duval, Marina Elliott, Mary Evans, Rainer Grün, John Hellstrom, Andy IR Herries, Renaud Joannes-Boyau, Tebogo V Makhubela, Christa J Placzek, Jessie Robbins, Carl Spandler, Jelle Wiersma, Jon Woodhead, Lee R Berger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2017-05-01
Series:eLife
Subjects:
Homo naledi
hominin
Dinaledi Chamber
dating
paleoanthropology
Pleistocene
Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/24231

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