Fossil hominids from the Laetolil Beds
Abstract
Remains of 13 early hominids have been found in the Laetolil Beds in northern Tanzania, 30 miles south of Olduvai Gorge. Potassium-argon dating of the fossiliferous deposits gives an upper limit averaging 3.59 Myr and a lower limit of 3.77 Myr. An extensive mammalian fauna is associated. The fossils occur in the upper 30 m of ash-fall and aeolian tuffs whose total measured thickness is 130 m.
- Publication:
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Nature
- Pub Date:
- August 1976
- DOI:
- 10.1038/262460a0
- Bibcode:
- 1976Natur.262..460L