Also known as ETE Locality 771, Die Kelders

Where: South Africa (34.5° S, 19.4° E: paleocoordinates 34.6° S, 19.3° E)

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When: Pleistocene to Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: max age at least 40000 years, 40000 year based on fauna, artifacts and sediments, C14 on charcoal radiometric intage_max, radiometric intage_min

Environment/lithology: cave; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Collection methods: quarrying

• ETE Size: both; ETE reference list: 488, 487, 485, 483, 482, 481, 480, 479, 478, 477, 456, 454, 121, 81, ; ETE museum list:

Primary reference: F. E. Grine, R. G. Klein, and T. P. Volman. 1991. Dating, Archaeology and Human Fossils from the Middle Stone Age Levels of Die Kelders, South Africa. Journal of Human Evolution 21:363-395 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: archaeological analysis

PaleoDB collection 21952: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 19.05.1997, edited by John Damuth, Richard Potts and Hannah O'Regan

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