Drimolen,    South Africa Go to Data Dashboard
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approx. average age
lower age limit boundary
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Henry
rate entry
1.45
2.21
BIO;
BIO with Swartkrans Member 1; Brain C. K. (1993). Swartkrans: A cave's chronicle of early man: Transvaal Museum.
 robust australopithecus
Homo Australopithecus robustus
mode1 bone tools; toothpick use; discolored bones have been suggested to have been burned and are interpreted as evidence for fire; but this is not a widely-held interpretation
Cradle of Humankind
Keywords: paranthropus Paranthropus
Homo Australopithecus robustus
Backwell Lucinda and Francesco d'Errico. "Early hominid bone tools from Drimolen South Africa." Journal of Archaeological Science Volume 35 Issue 11 November 2008 Pages 2880-2894 ISSN 0305-4403