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Partially excavated places in South Africa matching “Western Cape” · Mysteria

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🇿🇦 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.