THE ROLE OF DATING IN HUMAN EVOLUTION STUDIES Significance of the temporal framework of human origins has been felt always. As a number of new discoveries of hominid remains and occupation sites came to light in the years since WWII, fresh fossil data and contextual information started pouring in. Without an accurate chronological background, it is as such impossible to locate the fossils in space and time, to examine local lineages for signs of supposed evolutionary trends, to document the geographic spread of any species and the coexistence of distinct types of hominid, or actual replacement of one population by another, and many such details. Accurate age data of the fossils as well as of the sites played an important role in piecing together the records. In this regard, the role of dating to determine the age of fossils and archaeological artefacts in the human evolution studies is enormous. During most of the last century, age attributes of Euro...
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