Megalithic Portal: Latest from South Africa

African Window

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 13:55:27 GMT

]]>. Museum in Pretoria, South Africa

Iziko South African Museum

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:15:54 GMT

. Museum of Cape Town, founded in 1825, covering zoology, paleontology and archaeology.

Wolmaransstad Rock Art

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 23:09:31 GMT

. Rock Art in South Africa

Malapa

Tue, 15 Jan 2013 20:55:23 GMT

]]>Most complete pre-human skeleton found. Fossil-bearing Cave in Gauteng.Located within the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site and the Malapa Nature Reserve.

Kathu Pan

Thu, 22 Nov 2012 16:45:56 GMT

]]>Hunting with stone-tipped spears began 200,000 year earlier than previously thought, and the oldest complex projectile weapons from Pinnacle Point, also in South Africa. Significant Stone Age sites occur in and around Kathu and on adjacent farms. These are subject to on-going archaeological research.

Pinnacle Point

Thu, 22 Nov 2012 16:03:49 GMT

. Pinnacle Point is a small promontory immediately south of Mossel Bay, a town on the southern coast of South Africa. Excavations since the year 2000 of a series of caves at Pinnacle Point have revealed occupation by Stone Age people between 170,000 and 40,000 years ago.

Spitzkloof

Wed, 10 Oct 2012 16:44:20 GMT

]]>Hunting for the world�s oldest decorated eggs from the Middle Stone Age in South Africa.. Rock Shelter in South Africa.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.

Border Cave

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 17:23:19 GMT

]]>A Modern Culture Emerged 44,000 Years Ago. Later Stone Age emerged in South Africa more than 20,000 years earlier than previously believed -- coinciding with the time when humans were migrating from Africa to the European continent.. Rock Shelter in KwaZulu-Natal.Located in the Lebombo Mountains near the border between South Africa and Swaziland. Anatomically modern Homo sapiens skeletons and stone tools and knapping debris have been recovered. A set of tools almost identical to that used by the modern San people and dating to 44,000 BP were discovered at the cave in 2012. These represent the earliest unambiguous evidence for modern human behaviour, including specialized tool manufacture, hunting tactics, personal adornment, and notation.

Wonderwerk Cave

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 18:29:40 GMT

]]>Wonderwerk Cave excavation shows fire used 300,000 years earlier than previously thought. "Socializing around a camp fire might actually be an essential aspect of what makes us human.". Wonderwerk Cave is an archaeological site, formed originally as an ancient solution cavity in Dolomite rocks of the Kuruman Hills in the Northern Cape Province, South Africa. The cave contains up to 6 m depth of archaeological deposits reflecting human and environmental history through the Earlier, Middle and Later Stone Ages to the present.

Klasies River Caves

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 03:59:16 GMT

]]>Stone Age Pebble Holds Mysterious Meaning, see comment.. Caves in Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. The caves and rock shelters have revealed evidence of Human habitation from approximately 125,000 years ago. Roughly 75,000 years ago, the occupants performed a "spring cleaning" where the previous 50,000 years of debris was shoveled out of one of the caves and into exterior middens.