<< Our Photo Pages >> Spitzkloof - Cave or Rock Shelter in South Africa
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Natural PlacesSite Name: SpitzkloofCountry: South Africa Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Nearest Town: Port Nolloth Nearest Village: Lekkersing
Latitude: 28.87S Longitude: 17.050000E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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Excavations by the AMEMSA Project (Adaptations to Marginal Environments in the Middle Stone Age) beginning in 2009 have found stone tools, hearth sites, and decorated ostrich egg fragments from 60,000 years ago.
Located in the Richtersveld - an extension of the Namib Desert. The rockshelter is one of three dome shaped hollows eroded from an outcrop of quartzite, near a dry tributary of the Holgat River.
Note: the location given is only aproximate.
Ref:
AMEMSA.
Genevieve Dewara, Brian A. Stewartb, "Preliminary results of excavations at Spitzkloof Rockshelter, Richtersveld, SouthAfrica", Quaternary International, Vol. 270, 23 August 2012, Pages 30–39.
Note: Hunting for the world’s oldest decorated eggs from the Middle Stone Age in South Africa.
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