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Pages in category "Archaeological sites in South Africa" The following 61 pages are in this category, out of 61 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
The first three sites in South Africa were added to the list in 1999 while the most recent ones, the Nelson Mandela Legacy Sites and the Pleistocene Occupation Sites of South Africa, were added in 2024. Seven sites are listed for their cultural significance, four for natural, and one site, the Maloti-Drakensberg Park, is listed for both. This ...
Page dedicated to archaeological sites in Southern Africa (as opposed to the study of Southern African Archaeology itself). Southern Africa is as defined by the UN (Botswana, South Africa, ESwatini, Lesotho, and Namibia). This category is intended for individual archaeological sites, not complexes or cultures.
Swartkrans or Swartkranz is a fossil-bearing cave designated as a South African National Heritage Site, located about 32 km (20 mi) from Johannesburg. [1] It is located in the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site and is notable for being extremely rich in archaeological material, particularly hominin remains. [2]
Archaeological Sites in the region of Southern Africa organized by country. Southern Africa is defined as is by the UN (Botswana, South Africa, ESwatini, Lesotho, and Namibia). This category is meant only to contain further categories, although if articles exist which are dedicated to listing or describing the archaeological landscape of any ...
Boomplaas Cave is located in the Cango Valley in the foothills of the Swartberg mountain range, north of Oudtshoorn, Eden District Municipality in the Western Cape Province, South Africa. It has a 5 m (16 ft) deep stratified archaeological sequence that spans the past 60,000 to 80,000 years, representing discontinuous occupations and hunter ...
This is a list of national and provincial heritage sites in South Africa, as declared by the South African Heritage Resources Agency (SAHRA) and the nine provincial heritage resources authorities. The list is maintained by SAHRA by means of an online, publicly accessible database, the South African Heritage Resources Information System (SAHRIS ...
Blombos Cave is an archaeological site located in Blombos Private Nature Reserve, about 300 km east of Cape Town on the Southern Cape coastline, South Africa.The cave contains Middle Stone Age (MSA) deposits currently dated at between c. 100,000 and 70,000 years Before Present (BP), and a Late Stone Age sequence dated at between 2000 and 300 years BP.