General Information

Name:

STS 5

Synonym Name(s):

Mrs. Ples

First Description:

[PublicBibliographySpace:Broom 1947]

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Geochronological Attribution:

Taxon + Sex + Age Group

 Taxon:

Australopithecus africanus

Sex:

Male

Age Group:

adult (20y or more)

Pathology + Preservation

Pathology:

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Preserved skeletal Party:

cranium/cranial fragment

Laterality:

unknown

Polarity:

-

Preservation:

unknown

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Age Determination

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Relative Dating

Dating Analysis:

Discovery

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m

Linked Files & Pages

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Bibliography:

[PublicBibliographySpace:Broom 1947]

Multimedia Files:

Linked Pages:

South Africa - Australopithecus

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Additional Content
The exceptional well-preserved skull of an early man-ape which Robert Broom called Plesianthropus transvaalensis lived about two million years ago. Broom and Robinson concluded that it was the skull of middleaged female, and since then STS 5 was known as Mrs. Ples: [STS 5] The species has subsequently been reclassified as Australopithecus africanus when the skull was positively recognized as belonging to the same species as the 'ape-child' skull discovered by Professor Raymond Dart at Taung in the northern Cape in 1924. The CT-scan can be ordered on http://www.virtual-anthropology.com/3d_data/3d-archive

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