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Klasies RiverDr Sarah Wurz
Evolutionary Studies Institute,University of Witwatersrand,
South Africa
University of BergenNorway
CAVE 1
Layer 14
(SASR)
Layer 15
(SASW)
Layer 16 (SASU)
Layer 17 (SASL)Layer 37
(RBS)
Layer 38-40 (LBS)
CAVE 1 Witness Baulk
EARLIEST SYSTEMATIC EXPLOITATION OF SHELL FISH
Turbo sarmarticus (alikreukel)
Perna perna (brown mussel)Scutellastra tabularis (limpet)
Turbo operculum
Blue buck(Hippotragus leucophaeus)
First historically recorded African animal to go extinct
Scientific illustrator, Iziko SA Museum: Cedric Hunter
Together with Blombos Cave, Pinnacle Point, Diepkloof, Sibudu, Border Cave
crucial to understanding the history of all modern people.
outstanding evidence for palaeoenvironmental conditions
significant social, behavioral and technical innovations
Nomination for world heritage status: The Emergence of Modern Humans: The Pleistocene occupation sites of South
Africa
Fossil evidence for the origins of modern humans
Earliest ‘seafood restaurant’ in the world
Largest sediment pile, well preserved bone and shell
KLASIES RIVER
Klasies River, the ultimate home of the ancients from southern [email protected]