[2] Excavations are still underway at Cooper's and are currently being directed by Christine Steininger and Lee Berger of the Institute for Human Evolution and the Bernard Price Institute for Palaeontological Research at the University of the Witwatersrand.

Cooper's Cave has provided a rich tool assemblage that has been provisionally assigned to the Developed Olduwan.

Cooper's is arguably the second richest early stone tool site in the Cradle of Humankind area.

[2] Cooper's is a series of breccia-filled dolomitic caves that formed in fissures along geological faults.

[3] Cooper's D has been dated by uranium-lead methods (Robyn Pickering, U. Melbourne) to between 1.5 and 1.4 million years ago.