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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 and Kuruman in the Northern Cape Province, South Africa. It is a National Heritage Site, managed as a satellite of the McGregor Museum in Kimberley. Geologically, hillside erosion exposed the northern end of the cavity, which extends horizontally for about 140 m (460 ft) into the base of a hill. Accumulated deposits inside the cave, up to 7 m (23 ft) in-depth, reflect natural sedimentation processes such as water and wind deposition as well as the activities of animals, birds, and human ancestors over some 2 million years. The site has been studied and excavated by archaeologists since the 1940s and research here generates important insights into human history in the subcontinent of Southern Africa.[1][2] Evidence within Wonderwerk cave has been called the oldest controlled fire.[3] Wonderwerk means "miracle" in the Afrikaans language.
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WonderwerkCave is an archaeological site, formed originally as an ancient solution cavity in dolomite rocks of the Kuruman Hills, situated between Danielskuil...
). Caves do form in the dolomite of the Ghaap Plateau, including the Early, Middle and Later Stone Age site of WonderwerkCave; however, the caves that...
known controlled use of fire took place in WonderwerkCave, South Africa, 1.0 Mya. Findings from Wonderwerk provide the earliest evidence for controlled...
reflected in a rich, mainly Stone Age, archaeological heritage. Cave sites include WonderwerkCave near Kuruman, which has a uniquely long sequence stretching...
from Blombos Cave M1 phase. Engraved ochre has also been reported from other Middle Stone Age sites, such as Klein Kliphuis, WonderwerkCave and Klasies...
Retrieved 2009-12-22. "Apollo 11 (ca. 25,500–23,500 B.C.) and Wonderwerk (ca. 8000 B.C.) Cave Stones". Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan...
penetrate into the cave. There are also unidentified small flies (Diptera) in the cave. WonderwerkCave Kogelbeen Cave Sacred caves of the Basotho Olivier...
camp. The earliest evidence of cave habitation is WonderwerkCave, South Africa, about 1.6 Mya, but evidence of cave use globally is sporadic until about...
list of caves of in South Africa. A cave or cavern is a natural underground space large enough for a human to enter. The term may refer to sea caves, rock...
Age in Southern Africa. In 1,000,000 BP, hominins controlled fire at WonderwerkCave, South Africa. Ancestors of the Khoisan may have expanded from East...
southern Africa in prehistory. For example, a rock engraving from WonderwerkCave in South Africa (dated at 4000 years before the present, BP) showed...
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Keddadouche, K. (1 May 2021). "Magnetostratigraphy and cosmogenic dating of WonderwerkCave: New constraints for the chronology of the South African Earlier Stone...
built campfires roughly 1.6 million years ago. Nearby evidence within WonderwerkCave, at the edge of the Kalahari Desert, has been called the oldest known...
including the Early, Middle and Later Stone Age site of WonderwerkCave; however, the caves that form along the escarpment's edge, like that hypothesized...
PB; Vogel, JC; et al. (2 October 1981). "Dated Rock Engravings from WonderwerkCave, South Africa". Science. 214 (4516): 64–67. Bibcode:1981Sci...214....
ago. Re-analysis of burnt bone fragments and plant ashes from the WonderwerkCave in South Africa has provided evidence supporting control of fire by...
Lovelock Cave (NV-Ch-18) is a North American archaeological site previously known as Sunset Guano Cave, Horseshoe Cave, and Loud Site 18. The cave is about...
Wesleyan Mission Church Walter Sisulu Square West Coast Fossil Park WonderwerkCave South African Heritage Resource Agency List of heritage sites in South...
2008. WonderwerkCave approved as a Grade 1 National Heritage Site, Mar 2009. An international symposium on the site was held at WonderwerkCave in June...
and the Tibesti Mountains in northern Chad. Rock carvings at the WonderwerkCave in South Africa have been dated to this age. Contentious dates as far...
Pietermaritzburg Sterkfontein caves Swartkrans Palaeontological Site Union Buildings Voortrekker Monument WonderwerkCave The lists have been split up...
cave in South Africa. Francesco Berna; et al. (May 15, 2012). "Microstratigraphic evidence of in situ fire in the Acheulean strata of WonderwerkCave...
"Microstratigraphic evidence of in situ fire in the Acheulean strata of WonderwerkCave, Northern Cape province, South Africa". Proceedings of the National...
from other Middle Stone Age sites, such as Klein Kliphuis, WonderwerkCave and Klasies River Cave 1. Arguably, these engraved pieces of ochre represent –...
The now-earliest claim of fire usage is 1.7 million years ago at WonderwerkCave, South Africa, made by South African archaeologist Peter Beaumont in...
algericus Lyddekker, 1890 (Mammalia, Cervidae) during the middle Holocene in the cave of Bizmoune (Morocco, Essaouira region). Quaternary International, 374, 154-167...
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