Fauresmith

Refers to a sub-Saharan tool-making culture dating from the early Pleistocene, from about 100,000 to about 75,000 before present, and named after the site at Fauresmith, Free State province, South Africa. It is largely contemporaneous with the Sangoan industry developed by forest-dwelling people, and is distinguished from Sangoan by having existed in open steppe areas. Fauresmith culture is characterized by numerous flake tools, including projectile points of classic Levalloisian technique, small hand axes, and cleavers. It is associated with Saldanha man, who is attributed to Homo sapiens rodesiensis.