The inter-tidal zone is not exactly a usual place for an archaeological dig.
However after some vicious storms had shifted the boulders around, some interesting horizontal beds were exposed.
These beds are sandstones derived from solidified beach dunes dating to about 120 000 years ago.
This is in the Middle Stone Age in Southern Africa and sea levels were much lower due to large ice sheets covering much of Europe.
The black boulders are from a lava intrusion and this lava baked some of the surrounding mudstones into a very useful tool making metamorphic rock.
As a result, the fossilized dunes are scattered with MSA tools and debris from making tools.
Here are some specimens that are exposed at low tides.
These are still partially embedded in the fossil dune sandstones and are covered in barnacles and other sea organisms.
Pictures are not of the greatest quality because of having to rush taking them between waves.
Around the same time, I took some shots, out of the airplane window, of uncharacteristic snow that had fallen in the drakensberg mountains, in the middle of Summer.
Wow!!! It's really amazing! And you dont need to dig :O
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Fascinating!
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Really Nice post thanks !!....My new post ...[The Lotus Temple]
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Absolutely fascinating. Fully upvoted you. Found you by accident and am now following you. Looking forward to more such posts. thanks
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I always marvel at how beautiful the earth is...these facts are just an affirmation of that...thanx for sharing this post man
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How do you even find such archeological stuff there on the beach? To the untrained eye they just look like simple stones. Do you have some degree or such? Coz it is impressive @gavvet. :)
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Practice trains the eyes
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If i have an archeological background perhaps i could find what i am looking for. Nevertheless, great finds. :)
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how to deblop my steemit account
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I want to thank you for support on my article from yesterday. You brought my whole steemit experience to a new level. I also want to thank you for giving me the inspiration for that post. Today I created a new one and I hope you like it and can find the time to look at it.. Support like this can make my dreams come true.
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nice you dont even need to dig ;)
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Just dodge waves ;)
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Fractal geometry;)
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Great fractal geometry when you have a uniformly weathering and eroding geological body.
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Nice pictures anyways.
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Amazing work..@gavvet🍃
I like your all posts.followed u😄
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That is a difficult way to discover fossilized dunes given the limited time between tides to work.
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the fossilised dunes also extend inland
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I like to explore Shell middens and look for pottery and stone tools. The first one I explored was in a bay in the Gulf of Mexico.
I would so love to explore that beach!
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The first picture in this post is taken while standing next to a midden...
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Once you know what they look like then it is easy to spot them anywhere.
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I studied Archaeology 1 at Wits University 20 years ago (oops I'm giving away my age). This is bringing it all back. I'm trying to figure out whereabouts in South Africa this shoreline is? Somewhere in KZN I'm guessing?
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EL
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I'm green with envy at this point. My undergrad degree is Anthropology/Archaeology from the University of Georgia. I ended up selling out, and becoming a dentist. Pays the bills, but I'd rather be on a dig these days.
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Great post. Iam lucky enough to live near to Lyme Regis:
http://www.discoveringfossils.co.uk/lyme_regis_fossils.htm
Which is full of fossils. We regularly walk along the beach, looking for fossils in the cliffs. The best times are after storms which usually cause small rock falls to be picked over. I'll take photos next time and share our haul!
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History that can thrill every reader on your blog @gavvet. In writing was very clear plot story, and in accompaniment with the perfection of a very natural image. Can not be denied that you are encouraging every steemit user in all corners of the world in archeology and photography. Where I live there are also many ancient relics of ancient archeology, few raised about it, but after I read and saw your post. I will try to create a blog that can arouse the reader's passion about Aceh.
This place once shocked the locals socities, it is said that here had once visited a person who is loved by all humanity. Footprints with a width of 5 meters and 10 meters long. Whether it is still there, I also do not know, because already 10 years I dont visit that place. Nice
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Very beautiful...Even where I live in Italy, it was in the past covered with water and there are many fossils everywhere especially in the beds of rivers.
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Nice one @gavvet. Always finding those hidden gems!
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Wow I would love to visit this place :)
Tajmahal is also the finest example of archoelogy,i clicked one beautiful pic of reflecting taj ,plz have a view in my recent post 😊
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@gavvet nice post...
please reply @gavvet ????
i just want to be your friend :D
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I also like archaelogy; so your blog is very much appriciated; thanks.
What do you think about the latest and MOST important finding from the Romans within the last 50 years ? It is in France, place is Vienne, a bit below Lyon. They already call it "little Pompei " .
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Nice sharing...👍
Following you for more.
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buenas fotos y muy interesante te felicito éxitos buen post
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This I should to like this post it's awesome and helpful post
Plz check it out my blog I m new here @abutaleb365
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Excelent post gavvet! archaeology it´s very interesting and this is some how innovative haven´t heard before of this kind of research. upvoted, resteemed and followed!
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this is another marvelous work @gavvet. i am always longing for your post.
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It looks like a lunar or Martian landscape. I can imagine how it looks in reality - probably a fascinating sight!
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Yes, it is difficult. I remember the story a few years ago, from Turkey.
Artifacts discovered during construction work Marmaray, Istanbul, Turkey. Artifacts are now stored in two museums, namely in Yenikapi near Marmaray station, another in Darphane.
Marmaray is an electric subway that divides the Bosphorus,
The project, which began in 2004, was suspended for several years due to the discovery of ancient artifacts during the excavation of the tunnel.
It is said that this archaeological object is a relic of Byzantium 8,500 to 2,500 years ago. After all the artifacts are removed and printed correctly, construction continues.
Marmaray is a Turkish dream since 1876 in the time of Sultan Abdul Mecit II. More than 150 years ago, the Ottoman Sultan dreamed that there would be an underwater submarine in the Bhosporus Strait connecting Asia and Africa.
His successor, Sultan Hamid who ruled from 1922 to 1924 then made his sketches. But until the end of the empire this idea did not materialize. At the time of Prime Minister Erdogan, the expensive sea lanes were realized.
Subway line 13.6 kilometers long, capable of carrying 75,000 people per hour or 1.5 million people per day. Handles about 20 percent of car traffic in Istanbul with a population of 15 million people.
Source
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I wonder how the landscape changes over thousands of years and how it will change in the future. Interesting observations and thanks for the post. Special thanks for the snow in the middle of a hot summer)!
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nice post
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awesome work
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Another interesting story!
Thank you dear @gavvet!
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Gosh, we hardly ever get snow in summer!!! Love how most of the snow is in the shadows :)
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Melts faster on the northern facing slopes which get more sun
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Yip, all the small details. Love it!!
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I am a new user and have joined in steemit
Give me support for better understanding
Thanks you
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Buenas fotografías.
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Wow! Super cool! I am originally from South Africa but now I'm living in Germany. I can't believe there was snow in the middle of summer!
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wow this is an interesting archaeological place
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This is a photo's created or drawn by the forces of nature
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My daughter always likes to "research" rocks...and she's quite successful at it :)))
Few times she's found some fossils (sea shells )
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Love the post - Great content - Great video and the perfect outlook on life!! ENJOY it ! Thanks For Share.
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I admit it! All i see are rocks. just rocks. hail @gavvet
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Articel that enrich my insights
Regard
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I never thought to look at the stones at the beach. Middle Stone Age Tools from 120,000 years ago.... that's amazing.
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Nice Post bro
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Looks interesting
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those pebbles are much be greater if studied fully
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Good post
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Interessing Post , im Learning so much in Archaeology , i will search on the net for more details
thank you so much for sharing
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What a fantastic place which probably had loads of history behind it and many of us wouldn't think otherwise. Nature holds so many purposes that sometimes we don't even realise.
Such old rocks in a place like a beach bed which no one would suspect the stones to be a few years old but it blew my mind when you said some parts of this dune is over 120,000 years old.
Great Photographs @gavvet
I love the aerial shot! :)
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Wow, awesome pictures. Keep posting the great photos.
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Buen coral qel que has capturado en fotos
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Beautiful pictures and very interesting post
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Very interesting. :)
When I was on island Kodiak, Alaska I found a fossilised shell on a rocky beach that looked just like the one from your photos. Thought it was a very cool find.
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OK, "the Middle Stone Age in Southern Africa ", hmmmnn...
According to the anthropologist Carleton S. Coon in his mid-20th Century book and intellectual tour de force, The Origin of Races, southern Africa (the vast region south of the Limpopo River) was inhabited solely by the Capoid people before Europeans arrived. Capoid ethnic people survive today as the Bushmen of the Kalahari.
When was the MSA supposed to have ended for the precolonial Bushmen? How have their tools changed from the tools you found on the beach?
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That book would be rather dated. Capoid is a archaic term. The bushmen are now referred to most often as the Khoisan.
They are an LSA stone age culture creating much finer and smaller stone implements than MSA tools.
LSA is characterized not only by minute flake lithics, but also ground lithics, beading, rock etching and painting.
There were a number of waves of iron age peoples that migrated into Southern Africa before the Europeans arrived. Some annihilation of the incumbents took place via displacement and interbreeding. These migrations occurred in the moister east and progressed southward, the Khoisan that remained practicing their hunter gatherer lifestyles were force to the drier western parts and some have survived in these parts relatively unchanged till less than a century ago.
They are not considered the ones that made MSA tools.
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Welcome here @gavvet :) Nice post, i will follow your account, Do Upvote & Follow me!!
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I think you surely discovered some new (quite possibly alien!) and interesting life forms there !!
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Thanks for the interesting info, gavvet.
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very interesting post, learned some stuff about South Africa that I probably wouldn't have ever known about if it wasn't for you!!
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great post. I find the bit about sea levels particularly interesting. I've read that because of the much lower sea levels in the past, there could be human settlements from tens of thousands of years ago that are not visible now because they have gone underwater.
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There are, for sure, on the continental shelves
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A good post I really like.salam from @imranroza
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Amazing
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Archeology is one of the best for study the evolution. Thanks @gavvet for sharing this kind of important information through the post.
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I want to invite you to a challenge my friend. it makes me happy if you like to find answer of my puzzle.
https://steemit.com/game/@beautypics/play-game-201787t20314584z
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nice post
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Thanks for Sharing such a fabulus post. Keep on posting such artifacts , its all science and people who love believe in it.
Upvoted and Reseteemed
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Hi @gavvet, on which beach did you find it, I suppose it is somewhere in KwaZulu-Natal as you state you flew over the Drakensberg mountains?
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East London, Nahoon beach
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Archaeology is great job, but only for patient people. But It's really exciting. Exactly like your posts on Steemit @gavvet!
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That's really neat you were able to find those fossils, you must have an eagle eye! This old archeology stuff really interests me.
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fascinating :)
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wow thats really cool!
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that's pretty interesting!
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very nice post again.. upvoted for sure.. i love fossils. reminds us again how small we are in life, you also have a rare resteem. THX
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The stone in the next to last photo looks like a dolphin. Interesting rocks and post. 🐓🐓
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Coool..😎
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I enjoy seeing science and archeology in my feed, upvoted and followed!
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they can dig everywhere.. I bet they will find something cool in each place
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How do you even find such archeological stuff there on the beach? To the untrained eye they just look like simple stones. Do you have some degree or such? Coz it is impressive.
thanks for sharing @gavvet
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Ah fantastic stuff.. gives you the feels. following you now!!
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Nice picture @gavvet
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In this lobby, will there be T.P.? For my bunghole?
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Interesting. My brother is studying archaeology in University of California in San Diego. I will share this post to him. I'm sure he will like it. :-)
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Wow , beautiful pictures thanks for sharing with us these gems and knowledge.
Snow in summer ! :) have to say in South Africa we have the weirdest of weather.
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Nice post Mr. @Gavvet! Since I am not studied in the archaeology department, I am not sure of what to make of these findings.
Am I missing something very obvious? What do these findings imply? I am curious.
Do they speak to us about flying UFOs? Are these the fossilized eggs of long distant Targaryen Dragons??????? PLEASE, tell me. I need to know. XD
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It is unbelievable, thank you for sharing with us, always something to learn from you.
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Oh I've been thinking about writing about the geology of some beaches around the UK due to their intriguing nature. Some formations, with enough imagination, give you an incredible vision of the power of tectonic force, and it really helps you picture the whole island of the UK being rammed up, out of the water.
Like here in Hunstanton, there are some great angular formations and sedimentary layers to browse
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I already upvoted and resteemed you yesterday but was thinking about it today again and checked my region.. 15 KM from my house there is also an archaeology site. I made a post about it. @awgbibb leaded me to your page. https://steemit.com/archaelogy/@rival/archaeology-and-fossils-only-15-km-from-my-home
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Congratulations @gavvet!
Your post was mentioned in the hit parade in the following categories:
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nice photo
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are you a student f antropology
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Used the Nikon L840. Good shots. Enjoy
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Thank you for clearing the photos with me. So you say they were taken with a Samsung mini 4 wow those phones are incredible, actually much better than my Samsung S7.
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I learned so much in this article it was very good
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Really fascinating !
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Such a stony shoreline.
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I like your posts
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Thx again did you check out my archaeology post? tip!
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This is so beautiful
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Sir, please vote for us. We are very grateful to this. You continue to have success in the same way.And keep voting. @ahlawat
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Really interesting! Thank you for sharing!
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