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ID: 6005847
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/6005847

 

Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Taung (archaeological site)  Taung (archaeological site)

Coordinates:
Lat: 27 32 00 S  degrees minutes   Lat: -27.5333  decimal degrees
Long: 024 48 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 24.8000  decimal degrees

Note: Site located near the town of Taung; remains first discovered by miners in 1924 and marked the discovery of Australopithecus Africanus.

Names:
Taung (preferred,C,V)
Taung site (C,V,display)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Africa (continent)  ....  Africa (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of South Africa (nation)  ........  South Africa (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of North West (province)  ............  North West (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Taung (archaeological site)  ................  Taung (archaeological site) (P)

Place Types:
archaeological site (preferred, C)
mine (H)

Related geographic places:
near/adjacent to ....  Taung .......... (inhabited place)
..............................  (World, Africa, South Africa, North West) [1093853]

Sources and Contributors:
Taung..........  [VP Preferred]
..............  African Archaeology (1998) accessed 01/03/2001
..............  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 357
Taung site..........  [VP]
.......................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  African Archaeology (1998) accessed 01/03/2001
..................  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014) accessed 27 July 2010
..................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
..................  Shaw and Jameson, Dictionary of Archaeology (2002) 565
..................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 357
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014) accessed 27 July 2010

 

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