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Natural PlacesSite Name: Sibudu CaveCountry: South Africa Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Nearest Town: Durban Nearest Village: Tongaat
Latitude: 29.522627S Longitude: 31.085895E
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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derekwijtenburg visited on 23rd Dec 2019 - their rating: Access: 4 We needed to cross the Tongati River to actually set foot on the site, but could not as it was flowing too rapidly.
Andy B have visited here
The complexity of the skill needed to create and process such glues has been argued to provide evidence of continuity between modern human cognition and that of early humans around 70,000 years ago.
The cave is roughly 40 km (25 mi) north of Durban and about 15 km (9 mi) inland of the ocean near the town of Tongaat and has the form of a rock shelter. It is on forested west-south-west facing steep cliffs that overlook the Tongati River in an area that is presently sugar cane plantation. The cave was formed by the Tongati Rive down-cutting the sandstone cliff; the river is now 10 m (33 ft) below the cave
More on the cave at Wikipedia
http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/prehistoric-color-glue-factory.html#mkcpgn=emnws1
Note: "... Parents, children, grannies, and all sorts of people using the same bed." 70,000 year old mattress.
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