Excavation of a 4 Australopithecus-Bearing Deposit in Northern Kenya

肯尼亚北部一处含有 4 个南方古猿的矿床的挖掘

• 批准号: 9529044
• 负责人: Alan Walker
• 金额: $ 9.06万
• 依托单位: Pennsylvania State Univ University Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1995
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1995-08-15 至 1998-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9529044&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Excavation; Australopithecus; Bearing; Deposit; Northern

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 remains 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 lineage's.

艾伦·沃克和梅夫·利基，两位非常著名和广受尊敬的古人类学家，将在这个项目中挖掘肯尼亚图尔卡纳湖最有希望的早期原始人遗址。这个遗址已经从表面收集到了一些零散的原始人遗骸，而这个遗址所代表的时间段目前代表了我们对人类进化知识的一个缺口。已知的最早的原始人化石可以追溯到360万年前。这些沉积物可以追溯到400万年前，接近类人猿和人类血统分裂的假设时间。