Overview
Identifiers
Record Administration
Archaeology
Archaeology Recordings
Identifiers
Location
Location
- Sarah Baartman
- Kou-Kamma
Gradings
Grading
Grading by: South African Heritage Resources Agency
archiveimport Grading by: South African Heritage Resources Agency
This complex of caves is known world-wide for the very ancient archaeological deposits that accumulated for more than 100 000 years against the cliff face of the Tsitsikamma coastline. Their systematic excavation and analysis have yielded an array of vertebrate faunal remains, hundreds of stone artefacts, large amounts of marine shells and the superimposed series of hearth features left by people during the Middle Stone Age. Along with these, the recovery of a few and unique fragmentary human remains has helped scientists understand the development modern people as we know it today in terms of human anatomy and behaviour.
Declarations
Declaration
The Klasies River Cave Complex has yielded some of the earliest and most extensiveevidence for anatomically modern humans in southern Africa, and some of the oldestbehavioural evidence for a coastal economy through the extensive use of marine resourcesin Africa. The site also preserves the most extensive record on stone artefact technology,food gathering and settlement organisation in the Middle Stone Age in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Media
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