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DURING October 1954, Mr. C. K. Brain1 discovered 129 trimmed, utilized or damaged stones in situ in the 18-ft. red, gravel-bearing, sandy layer 25 ft. above the australopithecine-carrying grey breccia at the Makapansgat Limeworks site. Of these, seventeen were claimed by Prof. C. van Riet Lowe to be undoubted Developed Kafuan artefacts, fifteen being of deeply leached dolomite, one of vein quartz and one of dark grey quartzite.
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Brain, C. K., Van Riet Lowe, C., and Dart, R. A., Nature, 175, 16 (1955).
Dart, R. A., Amer. J. Phys. Anthrop., N.S., 7, No. 3, 335 (1949).
Dart, R. A., Amer. J. Phys. Anthrop., N.S., 7, No. 2, 187 (1949).
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DART, R. The First Australopithecine Fragment from the Makapansgat Pebble Culture Stratum. Nature 176, 170–171 (1955). https://doi.org/10.1038/176170a0
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