Malapa is a cave in the Republic of South Africa . It is located in the province of Gauteng at an altitude of 1442 m above sea level, 40 km west of Johannesburg and 15 km north-northeast of the famous mineral deposits Sterkfontein , Svartkrans and Kromdray . The cave belongs to the UNESCO World Heritage Site , known as the “ Cradle of Humanity ”.
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In the spring of 2008, the remains of two skeletons of hominids about 1.9 million years old were identified in a cave, isolated as a separate species of the Australopithecus sediba Australopithecus genus [1] [2] . The famous anthropologist Donald Johanson believes that the bones of A. sediba should be attributed to the genus Homo [3] . Here, the earliest finds of the remains of the baboons of Papio angusticeps 2.026-2.36 Ma old are found [4] .
Notes
- ↑ Dirks, P. H. G. M .; Kibii, J. M .; Kuhn, B. F. & Steininger, C. (2010), " Geological Setting and Age of Australopithecus sediba from Southern Africa ", Science T. 328 (5975): 205-208 , DOI 10.1126 / science.1184950
- ↑ Berger, L. R .; de Ruiter, D. J .; Churchill, S. E. & Schmid, P. (2010), Australopithecus sediba : A New Species of Homo- Like Australopith from South Africa , Science T. 328 (5975): 195-204 , DOI 10.1126 / science.1184944
- ↑ Elements - science news: Australopithecus sediba - human-like Australopithecus
- ↑ Earliest baboon found at Malapa
Links
- Malapa - Malapa - Anthropogenesis.RU
- Bottomless Malapa: a new analysis of the skeleton of Australopithecus sediba - Anthropogenesis.RU