The age of homo naledi and associated sediments in the rising star cave, South Africa
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Dirks, P.H.G.M.; Roberts, Eric M.; Hilbert-Wolf, Hannah Louise; Kramers, Jan Dirk; Hawks, John D.; Dosseto, Anthony; Duval, Mathieu; Elliott, Marina C.; Evans, Mary; Grun, Rainer; Hellstrom, John Charles; Herries, Andy I R; Joannes-Boyau, Renaud; Makhubela, Tebogo V; Placzek, Christa J; Robbins, Jessie; Spandler, Carl; Wiersma, Jelle; Woodhead, Jon D; Berger, Lee R
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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 single stratigraphic entity (sub-unit 3b), interpreted to be deposited between 236 ka and 414 ka. This result has been confirmed independently by dating three H. naledi teeth with combined U-series and...[Show more]
Collections | ANU Research Publications |
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Date published: | 2017 |
Type: | Journal article |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/248702 |
Source: | eLife |
DOI: | 10.7554/eLife.24231.001 |
Access Rights: | Open Access |
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