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Hoedjiespunt
Widely accepted33.0286° S · 17.9594° E

Hoedjiespunt

🇿🇦 South Africa, South Africa

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About Hoedjiespunt

Hoedjiespunt is a Middle Pleistocene aged hominid fossil-bearing site on the West coast of South Africa, near the town of Saldanha Bay. The site is an ancient brown hyena lair dug into the side of a sand dune, located on a peninsula overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. The site became fossilized under a large calcrete formation around 280,000 years ago, at which time it was likely several kilometers from the ocean.

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33.0286° S · 17.9594° E

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