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Approximate age:225,000 years old=average of minimum (0.050 Ma) and maximum (0.400 Ma)

Date based on: Inferred from surrounding dated units See map of sites with similar ages

Dating reference: A. G. M. Sinclair, The MSA stone Tool Assemblage from the Cave of Hearths, Beds 4-9. in The Cave of Hearths: Makapan Middle Pleistocene Research Project, J. McNabb and A. G. M. Sinclair, Eds., University of Southampton Series in Archaeology 1, pp. 105?137, Archaeopress, Oxford, UK, 2009.

Hominids:       

Archaeology:Acheulean      

Important specimens:

Notes: 2 large cutting tools cause Beumont and Vogel [P. B. Beaumont and J. C. Vogel, On a timescale for the past million years of human history in central South Africa. South African Journal of Science, vol. 102, no. 5-6, pp. 217? 228, 2006.] to suggest Fauresmith, Mcnabb doesn't call it Fauresmith [J. McNabb, The ESA Stone Tool Assemblage from the Cave of Hearths, Beds 1-3. in The Cave of Hearths: Makapan Middle Pleistocene Research Project, J. McNabb and A. G. M. Sinclair, Eds., University of Southampton Series in Archaeology 1, pp. 75-104, Archaeopress, Oxford, UK, 2009.]

Location: Makapansgat, northern Transvaal, South Africa
Map location/coordinates reference: Latham, A. G., & Herries, A. I. R. (2004). The formation and sedimentary infilling of the Cave of Hearths and Historic Cave complex, Makapansgat, South Africa. Geoarchaeology, 19(4), 323-342.

Key references:   Tobias PV (1971) Human skeletal remains from the Cave of Hearths, Makapansgat, northern Transvaal. American journal of physical anthropology 34(3): 335-367.