New burial dating work at South Africa’s Sterkfontein caves is discussed as pushing key deposits to between about 3.41 and 3.7 million years old. The implications are explored for how ...

The human family tree is looking more and more like an unruly bush. Paleontologists have now uncovered the teeth of two different ancient human lineages at the same site in northeastern Ethiopia. The ...

These new discovered dates by using a new dating method indicate that the fossils found at the Sterkfontein caves are not from near the end of the Australopithecine era but that they actually date ...