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HOWELL et al. have reported1 the results of uranium-series dating of bone from the Isimila prehistoric site, Tanzania. Preliminary identifications of fragmentary mammalian remains recovered during the first excavations at the site (1957–58) were reported in the interim report on the site2. These specimens, which are now housed in the National Museum Centre for Pre-history and Palaeontology, Nairobi (but will in future be preserved in the National Museum, Dar-es-Salaam), are discussed more fully here.
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CORYNDON, S., GENTRY, A., HARRIS, J. et al. Mammalian Remains from the Isimila Prehistoric Site, Tanzania. Nature 237, 292 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1038/237292a0
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