Coopers Cave South Africa
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Cooper's Cave is a series of fossil-bearing breccia
filled cavities located almost exactly between the well known South African hominid-bearing sites of Sterkfontein
and Kromdraai and about 40 km Northwest of the City of Johannesburg
, South Africa
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Breccia
Breccia is a rock composed of broken fragments of minerals or rock cemented together by a fine-grained matrix, that can be either similar to or different from the composition of the fragments....
filled cavities located almost exactly between the well known South African hominid-bearing sites of Sterkfontein
Sterkfontein
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and Kromdraai and about 40 km Northwest of the City of Johannesburg
Johannesburg
Johannesburg also known as Jozi, Jo'burg or Egoli, is the largest city in South Africa, by population. Johannesburg is the provincial capital of Gauteng, the wealthiest province in South Africa, having the largest economy of any metropolitan region in Sub-Saharan Africa...
, South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
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Tools
Cooper's D has provided a rich tool assemblage that has been provisionally assigned to the Developed Olduwan. Cooper's is arguably the second richest early stone tool site in the Cradle of Humankind area.Geology
Cooper's is a series of breccia-filled dolomitic caves that formed in fissures along geological faults.Age of the deposits
Cooper's D has been dated by uranium-lead methods(Robyn Pickering, U. Melbourne) to between 1.5 and 1.4 million years ago . Cooper's A, based on the animals recovered, is thought to be about the same age.See also
- Hominids
- List of fossil sites
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