Excavation of a 4 Ma Australopithecus-Bearing Deposit in Northern Kenya

肯尼亚北部一处 4 Ma 南方古猿沉积物的挖掘

• 批准号: 9404813
• 负责人: Alan Walker
• 金额: $ 14.55万
• 依托单位: Johns Hopkins University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1994
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1994-07-01 至 1995-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9404813&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Excavation; Ma; Australopithecus; Bearing; Deposit

ABSTRACT P.I. Alan Walker SBR-9404813 Alan Walker and Meave Leakey, two very well known and widely respected paleoanthropologists, will excavate a most promising early hominid site at Lake Turkana, Kenya, in this project. This site has already yielded a few scattered hominid reamins from superficial surface collections, and the time period represented in this site currently represents a gap in our knowledge of human evolution. The earliest known hominid fossils date back to 3.6 million years. and these deposits date to 4 million years, getting close to the hypothesized time of splitting of the ape and human lineages. ***

摘要 P.I.艾伦·步行者SBR-9404813 艾伦步行者和Meave Leakey，两位非常著名和广受尊敬的古人类学家，将在肯尼亚图尔卡纳湖挖掘一个最有希望的早期人类遗址。 这个网站已经从表面收集中获得了一些分散的原始人化石，这个网站所代表的时间段目前代表了我们对人类进化知识的空白。 已知最早的原始人类化石可以追溯到360万年前。这些沉积物可以追溯到400万年前，接近于假设的猿和人类谱系分裂的时间。 ***