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Tagshowiesons-poort
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🇿🇦 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 shelter
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…
🇳🇦 Namibia · Rock art
Later Stone Age (Upper Palaeolithic 27 ka) to Historical (27 ka–1400 CE) · San ancestors (Early LSA humans; Howieson's Poort industry)
Cave yielding 27,500 BCE portable painted plaquettes – among world's oldest art, named for 1969 moon landing excavation.
🇿🇦 South Africa · Cave
Middle Stone Age (120–55 ka) · Early Homo sapiens (MSA I–Howiesons Poort)
Klasies River Main site (KRM) is 5 caves/shelters on Tsitsikamma coast (34°06′29″S 24°23′24″E) with 120–55 ka MSA deposits containing anatomically modern human fossils (KRM 13400 mandible 115 ka),…
