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The age of the hominin fossils from Jebel Irhoud, Morocco, and the origins of the Middle Stone Age

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  • Daniel Richter

    (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
    Institute of Ecology, Subject Area Landscape Change, Leuphana University Lüneburg
    Freiberg Instruments GmbH)

  • Rainer Grün

    (Research School of Earth Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra
    Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution, Environmental Futures Research Institute, Griffith University)

  • Renaud Joannes-Boyau

    (Research School of Earth Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra
    Southern Cross GeoScience, Southern Cross University)

  • Teresa E. Steele

    (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
    University of California, Davis, One Shields Avenue)

  • Fethi Amani

    (Institut National des Sciences de L’Archéologie et du Patrimoine)

  • Mathieu Rué

    (Paléotime, 6173 Rue Jean Séraphin Achard Picard
    Archéologie des Sociétés Méditerranéennes, (ASM, UMR 5140 CNRS), Université Paul-Valéry)

  • Paul Fernandes

    (Paléotime, 6173 Rue Jean Séraphin Achard Picard
    De la Préhistoire à l’Actuel : Culture, Environnement, Anthropologie (PACEA, UMR 5199 CNRS), Université de Bordeaux, MCC, Bâtiment B18, Allée Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire)

  • Jean-Paul Raynal

    (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
    De la Préhistoire à l’Actuel : Culture, Environnement, Anthropologie (PACEA, UMR 5199 CNRS), Université de Bordeaux, MCC, Bâtiment B18, Allée Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire)

  • Denis Geraads

    (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
    Centre de Recherches sur la Paléobiodiversité et les Paléoenvironnements (CR2P, UMR 7207 CNRS), Sorbonne Universités, MNHN, UPMC, CP 38, 8 Rue Buffon, 75231 Paris cedex 05)

  • Abdelouahed Ben-Ncer

    (Institut National des Sciences de L’Archéologie et du Patrimoine)

  • Jean-Jacques Hublin

    (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
    Chaire Internationale de Paléoanthropologie, Collège de France)

  • Shannon P. McPherron

    (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)

Abstract

Thermoluminescence dating of fire-heated flint artefacts, and directly associated newly discovered remains of Homo sapiens, indicate that the Middle Stone Age site of Jebel Irhoud in Morocco is 383–247 thousand years old.

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  • Daniel Richter & Rainer Grün & Renaud Joannes-Boyau & Teresa E. Steele & Fethi Amani & Mathieu Rué & Paul Fernandes & Jean-Paul Raynal & Denis Geraads & Abdelouahed Ben-Ncer & Jean-Jacques Hublin & Sh, 2017. "The age of the hominin fossils from Jebel Irhoud, Morocco, and the origins of the Middle Stone Age," Nature, Nature, vol. 546(7657), pages 293-296, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:546:y:2017:i:7657:d:10.1038_nature22335
    DOI: 10.1038/nature22335
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