Duinefontein 1 and 2 are early prehistoric archaeological sites near Cape Town in South Africa An archaeological site is a place (or group of physical sites) in which evidence of past activity is preserved (either prehistoric or historic or contemporary), and which has been investigated using the discipline of archaeology. ... , City motto: Spes Bona (Latin: Good Hope) Location of the City of Cape Town in Western Cape Province Province Western Cape Mayor Helen Zille Area  - % water 2,499 km² N/A Population  - Total (2004)  - Density Ranked 100th 2,893,251 1,158/km² Established 1652 Time zone SAST (UTC+2...

They have produced Acheulean stone tools and animal bones dating from between 200,000 and 400,000 years ago. It was not a settlement site but instead seems to have been a waterside location where animals could be hunted or scavenged when they died by early humans. The humans used the tools to butcher the animals although many of the animal bones from the site represent kills by other carnivores. Acheulean hand-axes from Kent. ...

One context, from Duinefontein 2, dated by optically stimulated luminescence dating to 270,000 BP contained ochre that must have been introduced to the site by people and which may have been used as body adornment. If so, it would represent some of the earliest evidence of an aesthetic sensibility in early peoples. ConTEXT is a freeware text editor aimed for software developers. ... Optically Stimulated Luminescence or OSL Dating is a method of establishing the age of soil sediments. ... This article is about the color. ...

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Cruz-Uribe, K et al, 2003, Excavation of buried late Acheulean (mid-Quaternary) land surfaces at Duinefontein 2, West Cape Province, South Africa, Journal of Archaeological Science 30, 559-75, qtd in Scarre, C (ed.) (2005). The Human Past, London: Thames and Hudson. ISBN 0500285314.