Mossel Bay, South Africa
Pinnacle Point
Pinnacle Point is a small promontory immediately south of Mossel Bay, a town on the southern coast of South Africa. Excavations since the year 2000 of a series of caves at Pinnacle Point, first recognized and documented in 1997 by South African professional archaeologists, Jonathan Kaplan and Peter Nilssen, have revealed occupation by Middle Stone Age people between 170,000 and 40,000 years ago. The focus of excavations has been at Cave 13B, where the earliest evidence for the systematic exploitation of marine resources and symbolic behaviour has been documented, and at Pinnacle Point Cave 5–6, where the oldest evidence for the heat treatment of rock to make stone tools has been documented.
- City
- Mossel Bay
- Country
- South Africa
- Category
- Historic
- Suggested visit
- About 90 minutes
Background: Wikipedia