Fossils
In 1953 Professor M.R. Drennan published the first description of an early human skull cap found at Elandsfontein. Since then various other international researchers have visited the site to further excavations and research.
During the early 1980’s Dr Graham Avery of the then South African Museum conducted further surveys and excavated a number of areas, which he described variously as death sites (where large predators had left the skull and vertebrae of a very large mammal like a rhinoceros or long-horned giant buffalo, and accumulations of bones that he ascribed to brown hyena nursery dens. More recently Professor Richard Klein of Stanford University has led studies on the antelope and other fossils in the Iziko South African Museum's collections with Professor Kathy Cruz-Uribe (Northern Arizona University), Dr Teresa Steele and Dr Graham Avery.
From January 2009 Dr David Braun of the University of Cape Town has continued to excavate and research the site.