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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
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The first australopithecine 2,500 kilometres west of the Rift Valley (Chad)
Nature, Volume 378, No. 6554, Year 1995
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THE first sites with Pliocene and Pleistocene mammals west of the Rift Valley in Central Africa in northern Chad were reported in 1959 (ref. 1), and documented the presence of mixed savannah and woodland habitats. Further sites2 and a probable Homo erectus cranio-facial fragment3 were subsequently discovered. In 1993 a survey of Pliocene and Pleistocene formations in the Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti Province of Chad (B.E.T.) led to the discovery of 17 new sites in the region of Bahr el Ghazal (classical Arabic for River of the Gazelles) near Koro Toro. One site, KT12 (15°58'10" N, 18°52'46" E) yielded an australopithecine mandible associated with a fauna biochronologically estimated to be 3.0-3.5 Myr old. Australopithecine species described since 1925 are known from southern Africa and from sites spread along the eastern Rift Valley from Tanzania to Ethiopia (Fig. 1). This new find from Chad, which is most similar in morphology to Australopithecus afarensis4, documents the presence of an early hominid a considerable distance, 2,500 km, west of the Rift Valley. © 1995 Nature Publishing Group.
Authors & Co-Authors
Brunet, Michel
France, Poitiers
Universite de Poitiers
Beauvilain, Alain
Chad
Centre National D'appui à la Recherche Cinar
Coppens, Yves
France, Paris
Collège de France
Heintz, Emile
France, Paris
Cnrs Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Moutaye, Aladji H.E.
Chad
Direction de Recherches Geologiques et Minieres (drgm)
Pilbeam, David R.
United States, Cambridge
Harvard University
Statistics
Citations: 245
Authors: 6
Affiliations: 6
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1038/378273a0
ISSN:
00280836
Study Design
Cross Sectional Study
Study Approach
Quantitative
Study Locations
Chad
Ethiopia
Tanzania