New dates for Sterkfontein - Professors Darryl Granger & Marc Caffee

Publisher:
University of the Witwatersrand
Publication Date:
2 April 2015
Tags:
South Africa, Science and Biotechnology

Researchers from South Africa, the US, Canada and France today announced new dates pertaining to the internationally famous Sterkfontein Caves in the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site in Gauteng, South Africa. The announcement was made at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg following the publication of their paper, titled: New cosmogenic burial ages for Sterkfontein Member 2 Australophithecus and Member 5 Oldowan, in the prestigious scientific journal, Nature, on 1 April 2015.

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