Kathu Pan 1
Northern Cape site where stone points about 500,000 years old show damage consistent with use as hafted spear tips, the earliest known hafted-weapon evidence.
Dated events and their evidence
- about 498,050 years ago mainstream
Stratum 4a stone points dated by OSL and ESR to about 500,000 years, interpreted as hafted spear tips source
Where
27.7000° S, 23.0500° E
Sources
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