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（Alan Walker）和梅夫·莱基（Meave Leakey）是两位非常著名且广受尊敬的古人类学家，将在肯尼亚的图尔卡纳湖（Turkana）挖掘最有前途的早期人类遗址。 该地点已经从表面收集中产生了一些分散的人类残留物，并且该站点中代表的时间段目前代表了我们对人类进化的了解的差距。 最早已知的人类化石可以追溯到360万年。这些存款的历史可追溯至400万年，接近猿类和人类谱系分裂的假设时间。