ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2022
Biochronology of South African hominin-bearing sites: A reassessment using cercopithecid primates.
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- Building better biochronology: New fossils andProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
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- A biochronological date of 3.6 million years for "Little Foot" (StW 573, Australopithecus prometheus from Sterkfontein, South Africa).Evolutionary anthropology · 2024Article
- Dart and the Taung juvenile: making sense of a century-old record of hominin evolution in Africa.Biology letters · 2024Review
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- Reply to Granger et al.: Multiple, independent lines of evidence suggest Sterkfontein is less than 2.8 My old.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Monkey fossils do not negate cosmogenic dating at Sterkfontein.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Telling time with monkeys.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
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Abstract
Despite recent advances in chronometric techniques (e.g., Uranium-Lead [U-Pb], cosmogenic nuclides, electron spin resonance spectroscopy [ESR]), considerable uncertainty remains regarding the age of many Plio-Pleistocene hominin sites, including several in South Africa. Consequently, biochronology remains important in assessments of Plio-Pleistocene geochronology and provides direct age estimates of the fossils themselves. Historically, cercopithecid monkeys have been among the most useful taxa for biochronology of early hominins because they are widely present and abundant in the African Plio-Pleistocene record. The last major studies using cercopithecids were published over 30 y ago. Since then, new hominin sites have been discovered, radiometric age estimates have been refined, and many changes have occurred in cercopithecid taxonomy and systematics. Thus, a biochronological reassessment using cercopithecids is long overdue. Here, we provide just such a revision based on our recent study of every major cercopithecid collection from African Plio-Pleistocene sites. In addition to correlations based on shared faunal elements, we present an analysis based on the dentition of the abundant cercopithecid
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