🇿🇦 South Africa · Rock art
Drakensberg uKhahlamba Rock Art
Later Stone Age ~4000 BP–1800 CE · San (Bushman) hunter-gatherer
35,000 San paintings in 600 Drakensberg shelters - shamanic eland dance archive.
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🇿🇦 South Africa · Ancient city
Mapungubwe Hill Summit Enclosure South Annex — Southern Extension
Medieval (1075-1220 CE) · Mapungubwe
Mapungubwe Hill Summit Enclosure South Annex — Southern Extension in Limpopo, Musina, South Africa is a Medieval (1075-1220 CE) ancient city attributed to Mapungubwe.
🇿🇦 South Africa · Ancient city
Mapungubwe Hill Summit Enclosure South Annex — Eastern Outlier
Medieval (1075-1220 CE) · Mapungubwe
Mapungubwe Hill Summit Enclosure South Annex — Eastern Outlier in Limpopo, Musina, South Africa is a Medieval (1075-1220 CE) ancient city attributed to Mapungubwe.
🇿🇦 South Africa · Ancient city
Thulamela Stone Citadel Annex East
Late Medieval (1400-1700 CE) · Thulamela
Thulamela Stone Citadel Annex East in Limpopo, Kruger, South Africa is a Late Medieval (1400-1700 CE) ancient city attributed to Thulamela.
🇿🇦 South Africa · Cave
Blombos Cave M1 Still Bay Bifacial Layer
Upper Palaeolithic (35000–12000 BP) · Upper Palaeolithic
Blombos Cave M1 Still Bay Bifacial Layer in Western Cape, Blombos, South Africa is a Upper Palaeolithic (35000–12000 BP) cave attributed to Upper Palaeolithic.
🇿🇦 South Africa · Ancient city
Mapungubwe Hill Summit Enclosure South Annex — Western Terrace
Medieval (1075-1220 CE) · Mapungubwe
Mapungubwe Hill Summit Enclosure South Annex — Western Terrace in Limpopo, Musina, South Africa is a Medieval (1075-1220 CE) ancient city attributed to Mapungubwe.
🇿🇦 South Africa · Ancient city
Thulamela Stone Citadel Annex East — Northern Annex
Late Medieval (1400-1700 CE) · Thulamela
Thulamela Stone Citadel Annex East — Northern Annex in Limpopo, Kruger, South Africa is a Late Medieval (1400-1700 CE) ancient city attributed to Thulamela.
🇿🇦 South Africa · Ancient city
Thulamela — Citadel Ancillary Enclosure (Kruger)
Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age urban
Thulamela — Citadel Ancillary Enclosure (Kruger) in Limpopo, Kruger, Thulamela, South Africa is a Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) ancient city at…
🇿🇦 South Africa · Rock shelter
Border Cave — Early Homo Sapiens Shelter
Middle to Later Stone Age (227–44 ka to Iron Age) · Early Homo sapiens → San foragers
Border Cave is the 50×35 m west-facing shelter 600 m on Lebombo crest 365 m from Eswatini border with 227–44 ka continuous stratigraphy spanning ESA to Iron Age and early Homo sapiens fossils BC 1…
🇿🇦 South Africa · Ancient city
Mapungubwe Hill Summit Enclosure South Annex
Medieval (1075-1220 CE) · Mapungubwe
Mapungubwe Hill Summit Enclosure South Annex in Limpopo, Musina, South Africa is a Medieval (1075-1220 CE) ancient city attributed to Mapungubwe.
🇿🇦 South Africa · Ancient city
Mapungubwe — Hill Ancillary Midden Terrace (Limpopo)
Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age urban
Mapungubwe — Hill Ancillary Midden Terrace (Limpopo) in Limpopo, Mapungubwe, South Africa is a Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attri…
🇿🇦 South Africa · Ancient city
Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape
Early to Middle Iron Age (K2 culture 1000–1220; Mapungubwe phase 1220–1290 CE) · Gokomere-Zhizo / Kalanga-Shona precursor / Mapungubwe culture
Iron Age kingdom (900–1290 CE) on Shashe–Limpopo confluence, Mapungubwe was southern Africa's earliest class-stratified state: elite on Mapungubwe Hill, commoners at foot, gold working – famous gold…
🇿🇦 South Africa · Archaeological wonder
Makapansgat
Makapansgat () (or Makapan Valley World Heritage Site) is an archaeological location within the Makapansgat and Zwartkrans Valleys, northeast of Mokopane in Limpopo province, South Africa.
🇿🇦 South Africa · Rock shelter
Diepkloof Rock Shelter — Engraved Ostrich Eggs
Middle Stone Age (130–45 ka, engraved eggs 60 ka) · Still Bay–Howiesons Poort Homo sapiens
Diepkloof Rock Shelter is the 25 m quartzite shelter above Verlorenvlei 15 km E of Elands Bay with 130–45 ka MSA stratigraphy and 270 fragments of engraved ostrich eggshell containers (60 ka…
🇿🇦 South Africa · Buried city
Nabta Playa Calendar Extension — Limpopo (Polokwane)
Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) · Iron Age
Nabta Playa Calendar Extension in Limpopo, South Africa is a Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) buried city attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇿🇦 South Africa · Ancient city
Mapungubwe Hill Summit Enclosure South Annex — Northern Annex
Medieval (1075-1220 CE) · Mapungubwe
Mapungubwe Hill Summit Enclosure South Annex — Northern Annex in Limpopo, Musina, South Africa is a Medieval (1075-1220 CE) ancient city attributed to Mapungubwe.
🇿🇦 South Africa · Ancient city
Thulamela Stone Citadel Annex East — Southern Extension
Late Medieval (1400-1700 CE) · Thulamela
Thulamela Stone Citadel Annex East — Southern Extension in Limpopo, Kruger, South Africa is a Late Medieval (1400-1700 CE) ancient city attributed to Thulamela.
🇿🇦 South Africa · Ancient city
Thulamela Stone Citadel Annex East — Western Terrace
Late Medieval (1400-1700 CE) · Thulamela
Thulamela Stone Citadel Annex East — Western Terrace in Limpopo, Kruger, South Africa is a Late Medieval (1400-1700 CE) ancient city attributed to Thulamela.
🇿🇦 South Africa · Rock art
Drakensberg — Game Pass Ancillary Shelter North (South Africa)
Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) · Palaeolithic to Iron Age
Drakensberg — Game Pass Ancillary Shelter North (South Africa) in KwaZulu-Natal, Drakensberg, Game Pass, South Africa is a Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (…
🇿🇦 South Africa · Cave
Pinnacle Point Caves — Early Modern Human Site
Middle Stone Age (164–50 ka) · Early Homo sapiens coastal foragers
Pinnacle Point is the 164,000–50,000 BP sea-cliff cave complex (PP13B, PP5-6) 12 km E of Mossel Bay where Marean found earliest heat-treated silcrete (72 ka), bladelet microliths, marine shellfish…
🇿🇦 South Africa · Cave
Blombos Cave — Middle Stone Age Ochre Workshop
Middle Stone Age (100–70 ka ochre horizon, Still Bay 75 ka) · Homo sapiens Middle Stone Age (Still Bay/Howiesons Poort)
Blombos Cave is the 34 m-apse calcarenite sea-cliff shelter 300 km E of Cape Town where Christopher Henshilwood found 100,000–70,000 BP ochre workshop and earliest abstract engravings.
🇿🇦 South Africa · Cave
Sterkfontein Caves — Cradle of Humankind
Pliocene-Pleistocene (3.67–0.8 Ma Member 2–5) · Australopithecus africanus / early Homo / Paranthropus
Sterkfontein is the dolomitic limestone cave system 40 km NW of Johannesburg that yielded >500 hominin fossils including Mrs Ples (Australopithecus africanus 2.
🇿🇦 South Africa · Earthwork
Bokoni Stone-Walled Terraces
Late Iron Age (1500–1820 CE; peak 1700–1820) · Eastern Sotho (Bokoni)
Bokoni (Koni) terraces in Mpumalanga escarpment are 150 ha dry-stone agricultural terraces 16th–19th c., built by Eastern Sotho Bokoni people on hillslopes with road causeways and stock kraal…
🇿🇦 South Africa · Cave
Gladysvale Cave
Gladysvale Cave is a fossil-bearing breccia filled cave located about 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) northeast of the well-known South African hominid-bearing sites of Sterkfontein and Swartkrans and about…