Dr James Brink, palaeontologist at the National Museum Bloemfontein, who sadly passed away in September 2019, was one of the team members of the project and co-author on the paper.
In a new study led by Professor Rainer Grün, at the Griffith University, Australia, and recently published in the prestigious scientific journal, NATURE, the famous Kabwe (Broken Hill) skull is estimated to be between 274,000 and 324,000 years old, which is much younger than previously thought.
Discovered in 1921 at Kabwe (Broken Hill) in Zambia, the skull is one of the best-preserved fossils of the early human species Homo heidelbergensis and was originally estimated to be about 500,000 years old. Using radiometric techniques on the skull itself as well as material recovered near the cranium to obtain an age for the fossil, the findings suggest that human evolution in Africa around 300,000 years ago was a much more complex process, with the co-existence of different human lineages.
Please check out the link below:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2165-4…
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