Peers Cave near Cape Town holds Stone Age artifacts and skeletons from Pleistocene to Holocene. Fish Hoek Man skeleton found in Still Bay layer but invasively buried. Initial charcoal dating gave 35,000-36,000 RCYBP but bone dating corrected to 4800 BP then 7200 BP via AMS after marine reservoir adjustment. Six skeletons total: four children, two women in Late Stone Age shell midden with personal effects, plus Fish Hoek Man. All skeletons belong to San tribe. Excavations by Peers family used pickaxes, shovels, dynamite – discarded most artifacts. Site shows Early, Middle, Late Stone Age layers but much destroyed by excavations and tourism. Still Bay and Howiesons Poort techno-traditions inverted in some South African sites complicating dating. Fish Hoek Man male, 1.57m tall, 30 years old per Arthur Keith. Cave renamed Peers Cave in 1941, now vandalized with graffiti, fires, litter. Long human habitation sequence proven but site neglected and fragile.
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