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Geological Society, London, Special Publications; 1978; v. 6; p. 157-170;
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.1978.006.01.13
© 1978 Geological Society of London

Part III. Regional Studies in the Gregory Rift Valley

Fossil hominids from the Laetolil Beds, Tanzania1

Mary D. Leakey, R. L. Hay, G. H. Curtis, R. E. Drake, M. K. Jackes & T. D. White

Remains of 13 early hominids have been found in the Laetolil Beds in northern Tanzania, 30 miles south of Olduvai Gorge. Potassium-argon dating of the fossiliferous deposits gives an upper limit averaging 3–59 Myr and a lower limit of 3–77 Myr. An extensive mammalian fauna is associated. The fossils occur in the upper 30 m of ash-fall and aeolian tuffs whose total measured thickness is 130 m.


1 Reprinted from Nature, Lond. 262, 460–5, August 5 1976, by kind permission of the Editor.