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Sites with age ranges that overlap or fall within the period from
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~300,000 years old  
Locality: Koobi Fora Upper Chari Member, Koobi Fora Formation (formerly part of the Guomde Formation), East Lake Turkana, Kenya
(age between 0.5 Ma and 0.1 Ma based on Guesswork, but certainly above lower Chari Member, which tops out at 730k. "The stratigraphic revision at Koobi Fora covers only the Omo Group deposits there, but some later deposits do occur in the region. Two hominids, KNM-ER 999 and KNMER 3884, were formerly attributed to the Guomde Formation, most of which has been subsumed into the Chari Member of the Koobi Fora Formation (Brown and Feibel, 1986). These two fossils, however, derive from undifferentiated later deposits, probably in the time span 0.5 to 0.1 my."
-Feibel et al. (2005)) |
~300,000 years old   
Locality: Loyangalani (Kenya), southeastern coast of Lake Turkana, Kenya
(age between 0.50 Ma and 0.1 Ma based on data unavailable) |
~300,000 years old 
Locality: Ngandong, Java, Indonesia
(age between 0.550 Ma and 0.050 Ma based on Biochron, argon argon, and hope) |
~315,000 years old
Locality: Ngaloba, near Laetoli, Tanzania
(age between 0.5 Ma and 0.13 Ma based on U-Th, Ar-Ar) |
~350,000 years old 
Locality: Bodo, Middle Awash area, (upper Middle Pleistocene levels), Ethiopia
(age between 0.5 Ma and 0.2 Ma based on biochron) |
~395,000 years old 
Locality: Kapthurin GnJh-03; GnJh-23; BK63-67; BK8518; KAP-15; KAP-23;, Kapthurin, upper K3 and K4 localities (Trachytic tuff, 'upper' basaltic tuff, MBTU, 'lower' basaltic tuff, upper part of K3 sediments), Kapthurin Formation, Kenya
(age between 0.518 Ma and 0.272 Ma based on Ar-Ar) |
~395,000 years old
Locality: Jebel Barakah, coastline between Jebel Dhannah and the Qatar peninsula, Abu Dhabi
(age between 0.780 Ma and 0.010 Ma based on stratigraphic position and geomorphology) |
~400,000 years old
Locality: Visogliano, near Sistiana, Italy
(age between 0.5 Ma and 0.3 Ma based on Electron spin resonance and Uranium series) |
~409,500 years old 
Locality: Kapthurin GnJh-50; GnJh-41; GnJh-42, Kapthurin, upper K3 and K4 localities (Trachytic tuff, 'upper' basaltic tuff, MBTU, 'lower' basaltic tuff, upper part of K3 sediments), Kapthurin Formation, Kenya
(age between 0.547 Ma and 0.272 Ma based on Ar-Ar) |
~409,500 years old
Locality: Kapthurin GnJh-15, Kapthurin, upper K3, just below K4, Kenya
(age between 0.547 Ma and 0.272 Ma based on Ar-Ar) |
~425,000 years old 
Locality: Hoxne, Hoxne Interglacial Type Site, Suffolk, England, Great Britain
(age between 0.5 Ma and 0.35 Ma based on ESR, U-series) |
~440,000 years old 
Locality: Swanscombe, Galley Hill, Kent, England, Great Britain
(age between 0.78 Ma and 0.1 Ma based on unspecified) |
~440,000 years old
Locality: Apidima, Mani, southern Peloponnese, Greece
(age between 0.78 Ma and 0.1 Ma based on nothing) |
~450,000 years old  
Locality: Lantian, Chenjiawo, Yehu (near Lantian city), China
(age between 0.78 Ma and 0.12 Ma based on Paleomag) |
~450,000 years old
Locality: Saint-Acheul, Amiens (nappe de Freville; nappe de la Garenne; nappe de l'Epinette; Saint-Acheul; Cagny-Cimetiere; Cagny-la Garenne 1; Cagny-la Garenne 2; Cagny-Ferme de l'Epinette; Cagny-l'Epinett ), France
(age between 0.8 Ma and 0.1 Ma based on ESR, U-Series, Paleomag) |
~452,500 years old
Locality: Gona Gawis, Gona, Ethiopia
(age between 0.78 Ma and 0.125 Ma based on Gross biochron, nothing official published yet) |
~452,500 years old
Locality: Revadim Quarry, north of Kibbutz Revadim, near Bet Hilqiyya, Israel
(age between 0.78 Ma and 0.125 Ma based on Normal geomagnetic polarity) |
~452,500 years old  
Locality: Tan Tan, Draa River north of town of Tan Tan (incorrect location decribed by Bednarik, 2003), Morocco
(age between 0.78 Ma and 0.125 Ma based on Archaeology) |
~453,000 years old
Locality: Zuttiyeh Cave, Wadi Amud, Hokuk , Israel
(age between 0.78 Ma and 0.126 Ma based on unspecified) |
~453,000 years old
Locality: Vaal River Powers site, Power's site and other adjacent localities (Pneil 6, Pneil 7, Riverview Estate, and Canteen Koppie), South Africa
(age between 0.78 Ma and 0.126 Ma based on Very rough biochron association with Elandsfontein) |
~453,000 years old
Locality: Doornlaagte, 41 km due west of Kimberley, beside
the road to Schmidtsdrif, South Africa
(age between 0.78 Ma and 0.126 Ma based on unspecified) |
~453,000 years old 
Locality: Altamura, Grotta di Lamalunga, Bari, Apulia, Italy
(age between 0.78 Ma and 0.126 Ma based on nothing) |
~455,000 years old
Locality: Ain Maarouf, Ain Maarouf, Morocco
(age between 0.78 Ma and 0.13 Ma based on Biochron, paleomag) |
~455,000 years old
Locality: Ternifine or Tighenif, (Tighenif), Algeria
(age between 0.78 Ma and 0.13 Ma based on Biochron, paleomag) |
~465,000 years old
Locality: Boxgrove, Amey's Eartham Pit, Boxgrove, West Sussex, England, Great Britain
(age between 0.53 Ma and 0.4 Ma based on Biochronological correlation to Oxygen Isotope Stage 13 or Oxygen Isotope Stage I I) |
~475,000 years old
Locality: Arago, eastern Pyrenees, France
(age between 0.6 Ma and 0.35 Ma based on U-series) |
~485,000 years old
Locality: Huludong Cave, Calabash Cave, Tangshan hills, east of Nanjing, China, China
(age between 0.62 Ma and 0.35 Ma based on various) |
~493,000 years old
Locality: Olorgesaille Member 14, Southern Kenya Rift, Kenya
(age between 0.495 Ma and 0.491 Ma based on Ar-Ar) |
~495,000 years old
Locality: Wonderwerk Cave; Major Unit 4 (Middle Fauresmith: Exc. 1 6 7a 7b; Exc. 2 5), Kuruman Hills, situated between Danielskuil and Kuruman in the Northern Cape Province, South Africa
(age between 0.510 Ma and 0.480 Ma based on Inferred from surrounding dated units) |
~500,000 years old
Locality: Olduvai Gorge Masek Beds, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
(age between 0.57 Ma and 0.43 Ma based on K-Ar) |
~500,000 years old
Locality: Vertesszollos, (Vértesszóllós) Komárom-Esztergom, Hungary
(age between 0.6 Ma and 0.4 Ma based on unspecified) |
~500,000 years old
Locality: Wadi Dagadle, Oued Dagadle, Djibouti
(age between 0.9 Ma and 0.1 Ma based on TL) |
~500,000 years old
Locality: Kocabaş or Kokobash, (Kokobash), Denizli province, western Anatolia, Turkey
(age between 0.515 Ma and 0.485 Ma based on thermoluminesence) |
~545,000 years old
Locality: Ndutu, (Naisiusiu) Olduvai, Tanzania
(age between 0.6 Ma and 0.49 Ma based on Broad bracket from units at Olduvai, correlation with Ngaloba beds (Laetoli) suggest age of about 130k) |
~547,500 years old
Locality: Kathu Pan 1 Stratum 3, Northern Cape, South Africa
(age between 0.680 Ma and 0.415 Ma based on OSL, U-series, ESR) |
~547,500 years old
Locality: Olorgesaille Member 12, Southern Kenya Rift, Kenya
(age between 0.604 Ma and 0.491 Ma based on Ar-Ar) |
~550,000 years old
Locality: Yediyapur Locality IV, Baichbal Valley, Gulbargai District of
Karnataka, South India, India
(age between 1 Ma and 0.1 Ma based on nothing) |
~550,000 years old
Locality: Menchecourt, Somme Valley, Abbeville, France
(age between 1 Ma and 0.1 Ma based on ESR, U-Series, Paleomag) |
~555,000 years old
Locality: Kapthurin K3; K2; and upper K1, Kapthurin K3, K2, and upper K1, Kapthurin Formation, Kenya
(age between 0.601 Ma and 0.509 Ma based on Ar-Ar (!!base of unit K1 is below 601k Ar-Ar date); Tron & McBrearty, Tephrostratigraphy and the Acheulian to
Middle Stone Age transition in the
Kapthurin Formation, Kenya, Journal of Human Evolution (2002) 42, 211?235
doi:10.1006/jhev.2001.0513
Available online at http://www.idealibrary.) |
~586,000 years old
Locality: Thomas Quarries Grotte des Rhinocéros, Thomas Quarries, Oulad Hamida Quarry, Casablanca, Morocco
(age between 0.737 Ma and 0.435 Ma based on ESR) |
~590,000 years old
Locality: Cave of Hearths Bed 1-3, Makapansgat, northern Transvaal, South Africa
(age between 0.780 Ma and 0.400 Ma based on ESR on Bed 3 mandible and paleomag) |
~600,000 years old
Locality: Kebibat (Rabat), Mifsud-Giudice Quarry, near Rabat, Morocco
(age between 1 Ma and 0.2 Ma based on U-series, Biochron) |
~600,000 years old
Locality: Bodo, Middle Awash area, (lower Middle Pleistocene levels), Ethiopia
(age between 0.68 Ma and 0.52 Ma based on K-AR) |
~609,000 years old
Locality: Mauer, Heidelberg, Germany
(age between 0.649 Ma and 0.569 Ma based on ombined electron spin resonance/U-series method used with mammal teeth and infrared radiofluorescence applied to sand grains) |
~615,000 years old
Locality: Pakefield, Cromer Forest-bed Formation, England, Great Britain
(age between 0.780 Ma and 0.450 Ma based on Event and lithostratigraphy, palaeomagnetism, amino acid geochronology and biostratigraphy) |
~615,500 years old
Locality: Atapuerca Sima de los Huesos, Atapuerca, Spain
(age between 0.668 Ma and 0.563 Ma based on U series) |
~630,000 years old
Locality: Wonderwerk Cave; Major Unit 5 (Exc. 1 8a-e), Kuruman Hills, situated between Danielskuil and Kuruman in the Northern Cape Province, South Africa
(age between 0.78 Ma and 0.480 Ma based on Inferred from surrounding dated units) |
~630,000 years old
Locality: Wonderwerk Cave; Major Unit 6 (Exc. 1 9a-f), Kuruman Hills, situated between Danielskuil and Kuruman in the Northern Cape Province, South Africa
(age between 0.78 Ma and 0.480 Ma based on Inferred from surrounding dated units) |
~650,000 years old
Locality: Maayan Barukh, (El Hamari, Hamara) northern
Hula Valley between Kibbutz Ma'ayan Barukh and Kfar
Yuval, Israel
(age between 0.9 Ma and 0.4 Ma based on BIochron) |
~675,000 years old
Locality: Olduvai Gorge Bed IV, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
(age between 0.78 Ma and 0.57 Ma based on K-Ar) |
~700,000 years old 
Locality: Gesher Benot Yaakov, Dead Sea Rift, Israel
(age between 0.8 Ma and 0.6 Ma based on paleomagnetism, biochronology) |
~750,000 years old
Locality: Mount Pua (Mt. Pua), Central Dishon Valley, Upper Galilee, Israel
(age between 1.5 Ma and 0 Ma based on nothing) |
~750,000 years old
Locality: Isenya or Isinya, (Isinya) Athi Plains, Ethiopia
(age between 1 Ma and 0.5 Ma based on Biostrat correlation to Bed IV Olduvai) |
~750,050 years old
Locality: Attirampakkam, Tamil Nadu, India
(age between 1.5 Ma and 0.0001 Ma based on archaeology) |
~775,000 years old
Locality: Yunxian County, Yunxian site, Hubei province, China
(age between 1 Ma and 0.55 Ma based on ESR and Paleomag.) |
~800,000 years old
Locality: Saldanha, (Elandsfontein, Hopefield), Cape Province, South Africa
(age between 1 Ma and 0.6 Ma based on Biochron) |
~900,000 years old
Locality: Makuyuni Upper Manyara Beds, Upper Manyara Beds (Makuyuni Beds), Tanzania
(age between 1.3 Ma and 0.5 Ma based on Biostrat (very rough)) |
~1,000,000 years old
Locality: Kedung Brubus, (Kedungbrubus), Kendeng Hills, Java, Indonesia
(age between 1.5 Ma and 0.5 Ma based on Correlation to other sites with better known ages. Dating very imprecise) |
~1,000,000 years old
Locality: Sunjiadong, Luoyang, Luanchuan County, Henan, China, China
(age between 1.8 Ma and 0.2 Ma based on No basis) |
~1,090,000 years old
Locality: Xiaodukou, Nihewan Basin, China
(age between 1.78 Ma and 0.4 Ma based on Paleomag) |
~1,100,000 years old
Locality: Yuanmou, Shangnabang, China
(age between 1.7 Ma and 0.5 Ma based on Biochronology and paleomagnetism) |
~1,350,000 years old
Locality: Kanjera, Winam Bay, Lake Vicotria, Near Mount Homa, Kenya
(age between 2.2 Ma and 0.5 Ma based on ) |
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