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How is biostratigraphy used to date fossil hominids from the last 3 million years in Africa?

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What method is used to date a rock that is millions of years old?
It would depend on the rock. See the related link below.
How many years is 3 million years?
There are three million years in three million years that is written 3,000,000. There are 36,000,000 months or 156,532,371 weeks or 10,957,266,000 days in three million years.
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The deeper the fossil, the older the rock that the fossil is found in is.
What hominid lived about 3 million years ago?
Australopithecus Afarensis......The first on found from that group is a female named Lucy a paleoanthropologist named Donald Johanson found her.
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