Nature 176, 170 - 171 (23 July 1955); doi:10.1038/176170a0

The First Australopithecine Fragment from the Makapansgat Pebble Culture Stratum

RAYMOND A. DART

Medical School, University of the Witwatersrand. May 23.

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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