FEBRUARY 11, 2016
by Brett Smith
Researchers excavating in South Africa
According to a report on the discoveries in the Journal of
Human Evolution, the excavation team found two key specimens, a finger bone and
a molar, in a the Sterkfontein Caves, just northwest of Johannesburg.
The study team said the two specimens are
part of a set of four specimens, which appear to be from early on hominins. The
remains are apparently linked with early stone tool-carrying sediments that
came into the cave greater than 2 million years ago.
"The specimens are exciting not only
because they are associated with early stone tools, but also because they
possess a mixture of intriguing features that raise many more questions than
they give answers," study author Dominic Stratford, an archeology lecturer at University of
Witwatersrand in South Africa, said in a statement.
ved and died on the Sterkfontein hill more than two million
years ago," Stratford said.
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