| upper age limit boundary |
| approx. average age |
| lower age limit boundary |
rate entry
| 0.62 |
| 1.04 |
URN on teeth; Balter V. Blichert-Toft J. Braga J. Telouk P. Thackeray F. & AlbarĖde F. (2007). U-Pb dating of fossil enamel from the Swartkrans Pleistocene hominid site South Africa. Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
Swartkrans Cradle of Humankind
Association of evidence for fire (burned bones) with hominid activity is highly controversial. For most this equivocal evidence for early fire is merely a footnote to the more reliable evidence found at Gesher Benot Yaakov (reliably dated to about 700 ka) and Yuanmou.
Burned bones
Association of evidence for fire (burned bones) with hominid activity is highly controversial. For most this equivocal evidence for early fire is merely a footnote to the more reliable evidence found at Gesher Benot Yaakov (reliably dated to about 700 ka) and Yuanmou.
Burned bones
Brain C. K. (1958). The Transvaal ape-man bearing cave deposits. Transvaal Museum Memoir 11. 1967 The Transvaal Museum's fossil project at Swartkrans. South African Journal of Science 63 378-384.