Point of Human Origins - Mossel Bay, South Africa
Experience the awe of standing at a Point of Human Origins.
Visit world renowned archaeological site with early evidence for modern human behaviour.
Mossel Bay, South Africa.
Our tour is a dual journey - one in space and time, and one within.
Our main goals are to create awareness of the original human design, to awaken the human spirit,
and to inspire people to change the way they behave towards all life on our planet.
We offer 2 tour options:
Experience with Dr. Peter Nilssen and Guided Cave Visits.
Please note that ALL tours and cave visits by appointment only. The sites are not open to the public.
To book - visit humanorigin.co.za or WhatsApp/call +27(0)796400004
Point of Human Origins em Pinnacle Point - Mossel Bay
Esse foi sem dúvida um dos lugares mais incríveis que visitei durante minha viagem na África do Sul. Talvez pela minha paixão pela arqueologia, talvez por ter encontrado um fóssil no chão, talvez por viver de forma tão intensa essa experiência incrível de volta ao tempo.
Todas as dicas, roteiros, fotos e relatos da viagem você pode encontrar em nosso site e blog. Vamos adorar ler seus comentários.
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* A viagem para a África do Sul é a convite do South African Tourism para fazer parte da campanha #MeetSouthAfrica que é apoiada e gerenciada pelo iAmbassador. O Trilhas e Aventuras mantém total controle editorial de todo conteúdo publicado.
Peter Nilssen 24 March 2015
Peter Nilssen talks to a group from National Geographic's 'Wildlife and Cultures of South Africa, Mozambique, and Madagascar' voyage at Cape St. Blaize Cave about the Point of Human Origins Experience, Mossel Bay: the emergence of modern human behaviour, and why it's so important to us today as we face the 6th mass extinction event.
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Curtis Marean at Pinnacle Point Caves 24 May 2013
Curtis Marean of the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at the Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University explains the archaeological dig in PP 5 & 6 North at Pinnacle Point to members of the Garden Route Editor's Forum on 24 May 2013.
Thanks to
The SACP4 Project (South African Palaeoclimate Palaeoenvironment Palaeoecology Palaeoanthropology):
The Pinnacle Point Homeowner's Association
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Useful links
Curtis Marean's lecture The scientific significance of Pinnacle Point (delivered on the day this vid was shot):
Archaeology of Mossel Bay on Mossel Bay Tourism's site:
Garden Route Editor's Forum:
Curtis Marean: Scientific significance of Pinnacle Point (2013)
Curtis Marean of the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at the Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University talks about the scientific significance of the research at Pinnacle Point to the Garden Route Editor's Forum on 24 May 2013.
Thanks to
The SACP4 Project -- the South African Palaeoclimate Palaeoenvironment Palaeoecology Palaeoanthropology Project
The Pinnacle Point Homeowner's Association
Photo of Curtis Marean by Donald Johanson
Useful links
Curtis Marean's lecture: The African Evidence for the Origins of Modern Human Behavior -- (Gustavus Adolphus College, 2008 Nobel Conference: Who were the first humans?)
Point of Human Origin Tours:
Archaeology of Mossel Bay on Mossel Bay Tourism's site:
Garden Route Editor's Forum:
Curtis W. Marean - How Coastal Life Shaped the Evolution of Our Species
Scientific evidence suggests that the origin population of all modern humans resided in the southern African sub-region, perhaps in a coastal context. The oldest evidence for coastal resource use comes from Pinnacle Point on the south coast of South Africa, where a scientific team has been conducting research on these original coastal people for nearly twenty years. Curtis W. Marean will discuss ancient humans’ reliance on seafood and how human evolution may have been impacted by struggles over this resource. Marean is a professor at Arizona State University’s Institute of Human Origins and School of Human Evolution and Social Change. He is also the principal investigator for the South African Coast Paleoclimate, Paleoenvironment, Paleoecology, Paleoanthropology (SACP4) project based near Mossel Bay at Pinnacle Point.
Things To do in Mossel Bay and Surrounds
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CARTA:The Origin of Us -- Lyn Wadley: South African Archaeological Evidence
(Visit: Lyn Wadley (Univ of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg) contends that the manufacture of compound adhesives and compound paints by 100,000 years ago in South Africa is clear evidence for modern thought processes that involve, for example, multi-tasking. Some early hunting technologies support this conclusion. Cultural traditions, reminiscent of hunter-gatherer ones practiced in historic times, are also evident in South Africa’s Middle Stone Age, by not less than 100,000 years ago. Series: CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny [Science] [Show ID: 25392]
Pinnacle Point
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Pinnacle Point a small promontory immediately south of Mossel Bay, a town on the southern coast of South Africa.Excavations since the year 2000 of a series of caves at Pinnacle Point have revealed occupation by Middle Stone Age people between 170,000 and 40,000 years ago.The focus of excavations has been at Cave 13B , where the earliest evidence for the systematic exploitation of marine resources and symbolic behaviour has been documented, and at Pinnacle Point Cave 5–6 , where the oldest evidence for the heat treatment of rock to make stone tools has been documented.The only human remains have been recovered from younger deposits at PP13B which are ≈100,000 years old.
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Running in MosselBay
My favourite Mossel Bay route
Mosselbay 2012
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Curtis Marean - Heritage Mossel Bay June 2015
Curtis Marean discusses the latest findings of the SACP4 Project, which is studying the Middle Stone Age (MSA) at Pinnacle Point, Mossel Bay, and at other sites on the South African Coast. In this lecture he makes specific reference to the latest information and hypotheses about the environment of the MSA
162,000 years of holidays in Mossel Bay
Why did our ancestors live in Mossel Bay? And how? And what did they learn here?
These are among the central questions which a team of more than forty scientists from around the world – members of the SACP4 Project - are working to answer.
The South African Coastal Palaeoclimate, Palaeoenvironment, Palaeoecology, and Palaeoanthropology (SACP4) Project is led by Curtis Marean, an associate director of the Institute of Human Origins and professor at the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University. It produced its first significant paper in 2007: ‘Early human use of marine resources and pigment in South Africa during the Middle Pleistocene’ appeared in the peer-reviewed publication ‘Nature.’
It was the result of nearly seven years of study.
Prof. Marean and his co-authors wrote that “Genetic and anatomical evidence suggests that Homo sapiens arose in Africa between 200 and 100 thousand years ago.”
In Mossel Bay, they said, they’d found the earliest evidence for systematic harvesting of seafood, and the earliest evidence for a complex stone tool technology in which tiny, beautiful and precisely-made stone blades were embedded into other materials (probably wood or bone) to create advanced tools that refined our ability as hunters.
The archaeological evidence had been discovered by Jonathan Kaplan – a consulting archaeologist and the director of the Agency for Cultural Resource Management - and PhD. student (now Dr.) Peter Nilssen during a routine survey for an environmental impact study of the land that would become the Pinnacle Point Beach and Golf Resort.
Dr. Nilssen called in Professor Marean, and their preliminary findings were sufficiently promising to warrant a series of test excavations. Finance was raised from various international organisations (including South Africa’s National Research Foundation), and that first dig was so successful that it lead to another, and another, and another – and the work continues today. (The bulk of the US$ 10 million that’s gone into the Project so far has come from the USA’s National Science Foundation, and the Hyde Family Trust - and South Africa’s Iziko Museums, Mossel Bay’s Dias Museum Complex, and the people of Mossel Bay have lent considerable support, too.)
Later discoveries showed that this is also where humankind first learned to treat silcrete with heat in a controlled way – and so transform a rather poor quality raw stone into a top quality material from which to make our tools; and that this is where we first worked with the pigment ochre (the earliest form of paint) – which indicates that this is where symbolic behaviour – culture - began.
But the caves at Pinnacle Point – where the scientists have concentrated their work – are important for another reason, too: studies into Carbon and Oxygen isotopes embedded in dripstone formations formed during times when the Caves were sealed off to the outside world have revealed detailed information about the water and climate regimes that reigned over the period 400,000 to 30,000 years ago.
More information: visitmosselbay.co.za/archaeology
Fimi X8 SE Ocean Flight | Mosselbay Point Drone Footage (2019)
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The Fimi X8 SE can be a good drone, but we were having trouble with the gimbal while recording this footage.
The Point is an iconic beach and dramatic rocky point within central Mossel Bay (South Africa), and one of the hotspots for tourists and locals alike. Here you can stroll along the rocky coastline or take a scenic hike on the 15 kilometer long St Blaize hiking trail (to Dana Bay). There's also a long, natural tidal pool great for swimming in front of the Point Hotel.
Close to The Point’s number of restaurants, bars, and the Wet Yourself Aquarium, is the “Point of Human Origins”, otherwise known as the Khoi-San Cave, is located underneath the towering St Blaize Lighthouse.
The footage used in this video is used by permission, courtesy of my great friend and fellow drone enthusiast, Skyfish. You can check out the great drone videos he’s got lined up on his YouTube channel here, featuring the Mi Drone 4k, Fimi X8 SE, Mavic Pro Platinum and Mavic Mini:
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Pinnacle Point Caves - Mossel Bay
Quick video on hiking trail to Pinnacle Point Caves
Mossel Bay Pass (N2) - Mountain Passes of South Africa
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St Blaze Hiking Trail
Video feito durante uma espectacular caminhada pelo trilho de St Blaze em Mossel Bay, Africa Sul no dia 10 de Novembro de 2018.
A caminhada começou em Mossel Bay e terminou na gruta conhecida por Point of Human Origins em Pinnacle Point.
Foram 5 horas e meia de caminhada, 22,4 kms percorridos e 830 mts de elevação acumulada.
Mossel Bay South Africa | DJI Mavic Pro Platinum (2019)
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The Point is an iconic beach and dramatic rocky point within central Mossel Bay (South Africa), and one of the hotspots for tourists and locals alike. Here you can stroll along the rocky coastline or take a scenic hike on the 15 kilometer long St Blaize hiking trail (to Dana Bay). There's also a long, natural tidal pool great for swimming in front of the Point Hotel.
Close to The Point’s number of restaurants, bars, and the Wet Yourself Aquarium, is the “Point of Human Origins”, otherwise known as the Khoi-San Cave, is located underneath the towering St Blaize Lighthouse.
The footage used in this video is used by permission, courtesy of my great friend and fellow drone enthusiast, Skyfish. You can check out the great drone videos he’s got lined up on his YouTube channel here, featuring the Mi Drone 4k, Fimi X8 SE, Mavic Pro Platinum and Mavic Mini:
Don’t forget to sub for more!
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Bongo by KV
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South African origins of modern humans part 1
Professor Curtis W. Marean discusses the south African origins of modern human beings, and the earliest evidence of an organized community at Pinnacle Point, South Africa.
Mossel Bay | Mosselbaai - explore on foot!