{"id":37827,"date":"2022-06-27T22:13:21","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T22:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/ancient-fossils-in-the-cradle-of-humankind-are-more-than-1-million-years-older-than-previously-thought"},"modified":"2022-06-27T22:13:21","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T22:13:21","slug":"ancient-fossils-in-the-cradle-of-humankind-are-more-than-1-million-years-older-than-previously-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/ancient-fossils-in-the-cradle-of-humankind-are-more-than-1-million-years-older-than-previously-thought","title":{"rendered":"Ancient fossils in the &#8216;Cradle of Humankind&#8217; are more than 1 million years older than previously thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sterkfontein Caves contain more remains from Australopithecus than anywhere else on Earth. They&#8217;re part of a major fossil site in South Africa known as the &#8220;Cradle of Humankind.&#8221; Mark Edward Harris Scientists say early human ancestors, whose remains are in a South African cave, lived about 3.7 million years ago. Researchers relied on &#8220;burial dating,&#8221; a method that uses space particles to date early human fossils. The fossils&#8217; updated age makes them several hundred thousand years older than the human ancestor &#8221; Lucy .&#8221; In 1936, archeologists began unearthing a trove of early human fossils in a South African cave. Now, researchers say most of those ancient bones date back 3.7 million years, which makes them more than 1 million years older than previously thought. In a study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , an international team of researchers turned to an innovative dating technique. They used space particles to analyze bones in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To accurately determine the fossils&#8217; age, researchers analyzed particles from outer space in the rocks the bones were discovered in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,348],"tags":[185],"class_list":["post-37827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-science","tag-science"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}