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

Paul HGM Dirks, Eric M Roberts, Hannah Hilbert-Wolf et al., 2017. eLife 6: e24231.

Dates the Dinaledi fossils to between about 236,000 and 335,000 years ago by combining U-Th dating of flowstones, palaeomagnetism and coupled U-series and electron spin resonance dating of three H. naledi teeth.

MYS0D38X1T654CF · mystery · click to copyMHomo naledi and the Rising Star burial claimsArticledoi: 10.7554/eLife.24231Checked against the original0

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The age bracket; the dating tables in its supplements are a dataset.

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Dirks, P. H., Roberts, E. M., Hilbert-Wolf, H., Kramers, J. D., Hawks, J., Dosseto, A., Duval, M., & Elliott, M. (2017). The age of Homo naledi and associated sediments in the Rising Star Cave, South Africa. eLife 6: e24231. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.24231
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