This first lecture contextualizes the series and subsequent lectures by introducing a number of stone age sites, and focuses on perhaps the most archaeologically significant and researched of them all, Wonderwerk cave. The lecture introduces a number of important themes, such as notions of deep time, important archaeological terms and especially people/environment, which will continue throughout the series. Environment, and specifically climatic change are fundamental elements that drive human evolution even if they are not the only cause.
Through a series of sites that are located in about a 200km radius, and are connected spatially and temporally, the lecture discusses the various aspects of early human life and the way in which people negotiated living out in the open. This is not only seen in the ways people inhabit the physical environment, but also in their various cultural and spiritual practices.
The Wonderwerk cave specifically becomes a site where the entire story of human evolution unfolds, with artefacts, floral and faunal remains that date back to the early stone age, about 1 million years before present till the Holocene, the last 10 000 years. In this one cave a number of discoveries are made that give important insights regarding the ways in which people lived in deep time.
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