Funding for excavation and analysis of the Drimolen site was provided by an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (to AIRH; FT120100399), ARC Discovery Grant DP170100056, the Australian Geoarchaeological and Palaeoanthropological Field School at Drimolen run by La Trobe University (AIRH) and the University of Johannesburg (CM), the Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology of Monash University (DR, JWA) and a National Research Foundation (NRF) grant to the University of Johannesburg (CM). ESR dating was supported by the Australian Research Council Discovery Grant ((R. J-B, DP140100919).