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DECLARATION OF "WONDERWERK CAVE", PORTION OF PORTION 23 OF FARM, BLOCK AA 689, (IN KURUMAN) AS A NATIONAL HERITAGE SITE
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n terms of the criteria set out in Section 3(3} of the National Heritage Resources Act (Act No. 25 of 1999) Wonderwerk Cave qualifies for national heritage status on several criteria. Research, since the 1940s, into the archaeological deposits within Wonderwerk Cave has testified to the site's importance in the pattern of South Africa's history. Some 6 m deep, the deposits are estimated to span nearly 2 million years. This includes a long Stone Age sequence from Oldowan and Acheulean· to Later Stone Age times, ending with evidence of occupation by the first white settlers, who lived in the cave in the early twentieth century.
