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ID: 6003638
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http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/6003638
Record Type:
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Makapansgat (prehistoric site)
Coordinates:
Lat: 25 20 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -25.3333
decimal degrees
Long: 028 05 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 28.0833
decimal degrees
Note:
Area of dolomite cliffs with caves containing some of the oldest fossil remains in South Africa; large group of Australopithecus africanus fossils fossils found here by Raymond Dart.
Names:
Makapansgat
(
preferred
,
C
,
O
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
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Africa
(continent) (
P
)
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South Africa
(nation) (
P
)
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Gauteng
(province) (
P
)
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Makapansgat
(prehistoric site) (
P
)
Place Types:
prehistoric site (
preferred
,
C
)
archaeological site (
C
)
cliffs (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Makapansgat..........
[
VP Preferred
]
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Encyclopedia Britannica Online (1994-2002)
accessed 01/03/2001
.......................
Times Atlas of World History (1993)
349
Subject:
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[
VP
]
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Encyclopedia Britannica Online (1994-2002)
accessed 01/03/2001
..................
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014)
accessed 27 July 2010
..................
Times Atlas of World History (1993)
349
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014)
accessed 27 July 2010
..........
Phillipson, African Archaeology (1985)
28-29
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