Tukuk-OS🧿 Pinnacle Point
South Africa · Africa · 34.21°S, 22.09°E
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 (PP13B), where the earliest evidence for the systematic exploitation of marine resources (shellfish) and symbolic behaviour has been documented, and at Pinnacle Point Cave 5–6 (PP5–6), where the oldest evidence for the heat treatment of rock to make stone tools has been documented. The only human remains have been recovered from younger deposits at PP13B which are c. 100,000 years old.
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Quick facts
| Country | South Africa |
|---|---|
| Continent / region | Africa |
| Coordinates (approx.) | 34.21°S, 22.09°E · view on map |
Pinnacle Point is located in South Africa, in Africa.
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