Elands Bay Cave

Elands Bay Cave
Map showing the location of Elands Bay Cave
Map showing the location of Elands Bay Cave
LocationElands Bay, Western Cape Province, South Africa
Coordinates32°19′03.5″S 18°19′04.6″E / 32.317639°S 18.317944°E / -32.317639; 18.317944

Elands Bay Cave is located near the mouth of the Verlorenvlei estuary on the Atlantic coast of South Africa's Western Cape Province.[1] The climate has continuously become drier since the habitation of hunter-gatherers in the Later Pleistocene. The archaeological remains recovered from previous excavations at Elands Bay Cave have been studied to help answer questions regarding the relationship of people and their landscape, the role of climate change that could have determined or influenced subsistence changes, and the impact of pastoralism and agriculture on hunter-gatherer communities.[2]

  1. ^ Renfrew, Colin; Bahn, Paul (2012). Archaeology Theories, Methods, and Practice (6th ed.). London: Thames & Hudson. p. 253.
  2. ^ Parkington, John (1988). "The Pleistocene/Holocene transition in the Western Cape, South Africa, observations from Verlorenvlei". BAR International Series. 405: 197–206.