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Places tagged “contact period”

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🇿🇦 South Africa · Rock art

Wildebeest Kuil Rock Art

Later Stone Age to Colonial ~8000 BP–19th c. · San ( ancestral Bushman) and Khoe

Kimberley andesite engravings with 1,500 eland-rhino figures and living San custodianship.

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🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork

Mount Royal Archaeological Site

St Johns IIc–Mississippian 1050–1562 CE (midden 3000 BCE onward) · St Johns (Timucua ancestors)

St Johns platform mound 6.7 m with 300 m causeway and 6000-year midden, contacted 1562 by French.