Archaeology Tour

Peel away the patina of time when visiting archaeological landmark sites in urban and rural landscapes, to uncover the historical impact of colonisation and its legacies.

Ancient timelines and recent colonial overlays are revealed on an archaeological journey around the southern Cape, where you trace the artistic legacy of the original inhabitants of the land, the San Bushmen in their plentiful and evocative rock art paintings.

Explore divergent coastlines, visiting excavations on both shore lines that have revealed significant archaeological artefacts left by Middle and Late Stone Age inhabitants.

On the edge of a turquoise lagoon, track where ‘Eve’ left her footprints in the sand some 117, 000 year ago – the oldest known footprints of an anatomically modern human ancestor yet found.

Investigate the spiritual beliefs, rituals and patterns of kinship of the San Bushmen, and how they survived for thousands of years until the arrival of the colonisers.

Visit a proclaimed National Heritage Site that contains the greatest diversity of five-million year old fossils in the world.

Stay at an award winning private nature reserve in the heart of the Cape Floral Kingdom,overlooking Walker Bay, recognised by the WWF as one of the world best whale viewing spots, where the cliffs have provided shelter since Stone Age humans first walked the shores.

”Out of Africa ~ Always Something New” theorises that mankind’s African ancestors were using skills more advanced than mere stone tool-making, some forty thousand years before evolved Homo sapiens in Europe started top-dogging the less clever Neanderthals, and decorating cave walls in France and Spain.
Ponder these words, attributed to Pliny the Elder.