Wonderwerk Cave; Major Unit 1,    South Africa Go to Data Dashboard
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upper age limit boundary
approx. average age
lower age limit boundary
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Henry
rate entry
0.0029
0.0125
C14; URN;
C14 and URN datingReference: Beaumont PB Vogel JC (2006) On a timescale for the past million years of human history in central South Africa; Chazan M. Ron H. Matmon A. Porat N. Goldberg P. Yates R. et al. (2008). Radiometric dating of the Earlier Stone Age sequence in excavation I at Wonderwerk Cave South Africa: preliminary results. Journal of Human Evolution 55(1) 1-11
mode4 Late stone age;fire; fire hearths (uncontroversial evidence of fire), engraving
(Exc. 1 1-4d Exc. 1 1 Exc. 3 1 Exc 5. 1); Kuruman Hills situated between Danielskuil and Kuruman in the Northern Cape Province
fine-line engraved

Beaumont PB Vogel JC (2006) On a timescale for the past million years of human history in central South Africa; Chazan M. Ron H. Matmon A. Porat N. Goldberg P. Yates R. et al. (2008). Radiometric dating of the Earlier Stone Age sequence in excavation I at Wonderwerk Cave South Africa: preliminary results. Journal of Human Evolution 55(1) 1-11