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Excavation ongoing places tagged “symbolic” in South Africa · Mysteria

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Excavation ongoing places tagged “symbolic” in South Africa

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🇿🇦 South Africa

🇿🇦 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.