On the Uitzoek farm, 10 km north of Cornelia, fossils were discovered in
Pleistocene alluvial deposits by Van Hoepen in the 1920s and 1930s. These fossils include extinct mammal forms such as a donkey-sized pig (
Metridiochoerus modestus), the three-toed horse (
Eurygnathohippus cornelianus) only previously found in Tanzania, the giant buffalo (
Synerus antiquus), Bondi's springbok (
Antidorcas bondi), and the giant wildebeest (
Megolotragus eucornutus).
Acheulian Stone Age tools such as handaxes and cleavers have also been found here. Recent research document excavations of a fossil bone bed, possibly resulting from the accumulation by hyaenas and redeposition by dongas (i.e., gullies). Associated with the fossil bone bed were a human (
Homo sp.) tooth and Acheulian artifacts. These deposits are dated to the
Jaramillo subchron (1.076 - 1.008 Ma) by
paleomagnetism. ==Education==