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Late Australopithecine from Baringo District, Kenya

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Faunal remains from Chesowanja, a new Pleistocene fossil locality in the Northern Rift Valley of Kenya, include a partial cranium of a late robust australopithecine. Isotopic dates suggest an age of 1.1 to 1.2 million years for the fossiliferous sediments.

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  1. Department of Geology, Bedford College, London

    J. CARNEY & A. HILL

  2. Department of Geodesy and Geophysics, University of Cambridge,

    J. A. MILLER

  3. Department of Human Anatomy, University of Nairobi, Kenya

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CARNEY, J., HILL, A., MILLER, J. et al. Late Australopithecine from Baringo District, Kenya. Nature 230, 509–514 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/230509a0

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