South Africa has dozens of subterranean treasures. Some of these caves are portals to ancient human life. Visitors can explore networks of tunnels, see beautiful rock formations, and glimpse the inner workings of Earth where the sun don’t shine. Blombos is a coastal archaeological site east of Cape Town, famous for 75,000-year-old beads that were found there. They were decorated with abstract designs, making them some of the earliest evidence of human artwork. Excavation of Middle Stone Age sites in Southern Africa resulted in a paradigm shift in understanding the development of modern human behavior.
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