Pinnacle Point

Pinnacle Point is a small promontory immediately south of , a town on the southern coast of South Africa. Excavations since the year 2000 of a series of caves at Pinnacle Point, first recognized and documented in 1997 by South African professional archaeologists, Jonathan Kaplan and Peter Nilssen, have revealed occupation by Middle Stone Age people between 170,000 and 40,000 years ago.
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Wikipedia
  • Cave
  • …lies at an elevation of 4 metres (13 feet)
  • …is operated by Heritage Western Cape
  • Description: small promontory south of Mossel Bay, South Africa
  • Also known as
    “Pinacle Point”
    “Pinaclepunt”
    “Point of Human Origins”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mossel Bay and Hartenbos.
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is a harbour town of about 170,000 people on the of .
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is a town in the province of . is situated 9 km north of Pinnacle Point.

Pinnacle Point

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Latitude
-34.20776° or 34° 12′ 28″ south
Longitude
22.08952° or 22° 5′ 22″ east
Open location code
4GQ4Q3RQ+VR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3657259352
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­cave_entrance
Geo­Names ID
965146
Wiki­data ID
Q1814354

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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Venetian—“Pinnacle Point” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Pinnacle Point Man”
  • Catalan: “Pinnacle Point”
  • Cebuano: “Pinnacle Point”
  • Chinese: “品尼高點”
  • Dutch: “Pinnacle Point Caves”
  • Dutch: “Pinnacle Point-grotten”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بيناكل بوينت”
  • French: “Pinnacle Point”
  • German: “Pinnacle-Point-Mensch”
  • Hebrew: “פינאקל פוינט”
  • Italian: “Pinnacle Point”
  • Japanese: “ピナクル・ポイント”
  • Japanese: “ピナクルポイント岬”
  • Japanese: “ピナクルポイント洞窟”
  • Japanese: “ピナクルポイント遺跡”
  • Japanese: “ピナクルポイント遺跡群”
  • Ladin: “Pinnacle Point”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Pinnacle Point”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pinnacle Point”
  • Norwegian: “Pinnacle point”
  • Spanish: “Yacimiento arqueologico de Pinnacle Point”
  • Spanish: “Yacimiento arqueológico de Pinnacle Point”
  • Tswana: “Pinnacle Point”
  • Turkish: “Pinacle Point Mağarası”
  • Turkish: “Pinnacle Point İnsanı”
  • Turkish: “Pinnacle Point Mağarası”
  • Venetian: “Pinnacle Point”

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