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Wonderwerk Cave is an
archaeological site,
formed originally as an
ancient solution cavity in
dolomite rocks of the
Kuruman Hills,
situated between Danielskuil...
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known controlled use of fire took
place in
Wonderwerk Cave,
South Africa, 1.0 Mya.
Findings from
Wonderwerk provide the
earliest evidence for controlled...
- a rich,
mainly Stone Age,
archaeological heritage. Cave
sites include Wonderwerk Cave near Kuruman,
which has a
uniquely long
sequence stretching from...
- Keddadouche, K. (1 May 2021). "Magnetostratigraphy and
cosmogenic dating of
Wonderwerk Cave: New
constraints for the
chronology of the
South African Earlier...
- "Microstratigraphic
evidence of in situ fire in the
Acheulean strata of
Wonderwerk Cave,
Northern Cape province,
South Africa".
Proceedings of the National...
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first human species to
wield fire. The
earliest claimed fire site is
Wonderwerk Cave,
South Africa, at 1.7
million years old.
While the species' dispersal...
- in
southern Africa in prehistory. For example, a rock
engraving from
Wonderwerk Cave in
South Africa (dated at 4000
years before the present, BP) showed...
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Fauresmith is
found at a
number of
other archaeological sites such as
Wonderwerk Cave and
Kathu Pan
where it is
potentially dated to at
least 420,000 years...
- "Microstratigraphic
evidence of in situ fire in the
Acheulean strata of
Wonderwerk Cave,
Northern Cape province,
South Africa". PNAS. 109 (20): E1215 – E1220...
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built campfires roughly 1.6
million years ago.
Nearby evidence within Wonderwerk Cave, at the edge of the
Kalahari Desert, has been
called the
oldest known...
