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Fauresmith
Fauresmith [CP].A stoneworking industry found in south and east Africa related to the late ACHEULIAN, characterized by small pointed and neatly made handaxes, and named after a site in the Orange Free State. At Saldanha, Cape Province, Fauresmith artefacts were contemporary with fossil remains of Homo neanderthalis.
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