Swartklip 1

The occurrence of bones at Swartklip was first noted by Singer and Fuller (1962), with Hendey and Hendey (1968) later describing fossils that had been collected up to 1966. Subsequent collections at Swartklip 1 were reported by Klein (Klein, 1975, 1983). Amino acid racemization ages from ostrich eggshell suggest the site dates to Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 6, between 186 and 130 ka (Klein et al., 2007). This is consistent with an optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) age for a paleosol situated stratigraphically above the fossil assemblage, which dates to MIS 5e (~130 ka) (Roberts et al., 2009)

Hendey, Q.B., Hendey, H., 1968. New Quaternary fossil sites near Swartklip, Cape Province. Annals of the South African Museum 52, 43-73.

Klein, R.G., 1975. Paleoanthropological implications of the nonarcheological bone assemblage from Swartklip I, south-western Cape Province, South Africa. Quaternary Research 5, 275-288.

Klein, R.G., 1983. Palaeoenvironmental implications of Quaternary large mammals in the fynbos region, in: Deacon, H.J., Hendey, Q.B., Lambrechts, J.J.N. (Eds.), Fynbos Palaeoecology: A Preliminary Synthesis, South African National Scientific Programmes Report No 75. Mills Litho, Cape Town, pp. 116-138.

Klein, R.G., Avery, G., Cruz-Uribe, K., Steele, T.E., 2007. The mammalian fauna associated with an archaic hominin skullcap and later Acheulean artifacts at Elandsfontein, Western Cape Province, South Africa. Journal of Human Evolution 52, 164-186.

Roberts, D.L., Bateman, M.D., Murray-Wallace, C.V., Carr, A.S., Holmes, P.J., 2009. West coast dune plumes: climate driven contrasts in dunefield morphogenesis along the western and southern South African coasts. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 271, 24-38.

Singer, R., Fuller, A.O., 1962. The geology and description of a fossiliferous deposit near Zwartklip in False Bay. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 34, 205-211.