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🇿🇦 South Africa · Archaeological wonder
KwaZulu-Natal Amafa and Research Institute (Zulu for 'Heritage KwaZulu-Natal'), commonly known as 'Amafa', is a provincial heritage resources authority in terms of South Africa's National Heritage…
🇿🇦 South Africa · Rock art
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 · Archaeological wonder
Border Cave is an archaeological site located in the western Lebombo Mountains in Kwazulu-Natal.
🇿🇦 South Africa · Rock 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 · Rock art
Late Stone Age 3000 BCE–19th c. CE · San (Bushman) hunter-gatherer
uKhahlamba-Drakensberg Main Caves – 500+ San (Bushman) paintings in sandstone Game Pass Shelter: 35,000+ individual images (polychrome eland, therianthropes, Rosetta Panel).
🇿🇦 South Africa · 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.
🇿🇦 South Africa · Rock shelter
Middle Stone Age (77–38 ka) · Homo sapiens Still Bay–Howiesons Poort–Sibudan
Sibudu is the 55×18 m sandstone cliff shelter above Tongati River where Lyn Wadley found 77–38 ka MSA succession with earliest bow-and-arrow (64 ka quartz segments), earliest bedding (77 ka sedge…
