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Age and context of the oldest known hominin fossils from Flores
Adam Brumm, Gerrit D. van den Bergh, Michael Storey et al., 2016. Nature 534: 249-253.
The Mata Menge fossil layer was deposited about 700,000 years ago (40Ar/39Ar and fission-track dates on bracketing tephra, with US-ESR on teeth), in a dry, open grassland setting, with stone tools much like those of Liang Bua.
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Brumm, A., van den Bergh, G. D., Storey, M., Kurniawan, I., Alloway, B. V., Setiawan, R., Setiyabudi, E., & Grün, R. (2016). Age and context of the oldest known hominin fossils from Flores. Nature 534: 249-253. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature17663
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title = {Age and context of the oldest known hominin fossils from Flores},
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Brumm, Adam et al.. “Age and context of the oldest known hominin fossils from Flores.” Nature 534: 249-253 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature17663.