Sites

A high density of Middle Stone Age tools on the surface. Taphonomy or site formation processes having reduced their long term integrity and significance. A variable density of stone artefacts, mostly of Pleistocene age, was noted, very much as on the adjoining farm Kalkbult, over most of the area examined. Such occurrences exist as ‘noise’ over almost all of the surrounding Karoo landscape and may represent, here, mostly off-site opportunistic knapping over long periods of time, and then almost certainly displaced both horizontally and vertically by environmental processes including collapsing of stratified sequences through erosion. Densities range from less than 1 artefact per 10x10 m to more than 5 or even 10 per m2. The latter spreads, noted at the north western part of the site, are impressive but, lacking contextual integrity and bereft of any organic remains, they are of low significance.