Dig it – Cederberg’s stones will rock you - Cape Argus | IOL.co.za: "team dug there earlier this year and returned for another month. Already, they have recovered 10 000 artefacts.
Mackay says UCT archaeologist professor John Parkington had first excavated this site in 1969. Parkington was interested in the archaeological history of the last few thousand years and, although he discovered and excavated a burial site, he hadn’t really found what he was looking for, Mackay says.
“When we came back, we started by taking out John’s old hole to give us the best idea of what would happen. It was quite a mission after 42 years, but we got there and identified that part of it that we thought would work best for us.”
They’ve subsequently excavated 3m2 and have found a marked discontinuity in the age of the sediments from about 12 000 years until about 55 000"
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