Kabwe (Broken Hill)
Zambian mine site that yielded the Rhodesian Man skull. A 2020 redating pushed its age far older than long assumed, reopening debate on its evolutionary position.
Dated events and their evidence
- about 297,050 years ago disputed
Skull redated by uranium-series and ESR to about 299,000 years, far older than the traditional assumption; a contested shift source
Where
14.4600° S, 28.4260° E
Sources
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