Apollo 11 Cave

A cave in southern Namibia near the confluence of the Orange and Great Fish Rivers which has a long sequence of industries dating from the Middle Stone Age. There is a series of detached rock slabs with rock paintings dating between 28,450-26,350 years old, among the oldest dated paintings in the world and the oldest dated rock art of southern Africa. Later horizons in the Apollo 11 Cave show a scraper-based industry in the 13th-8th millennia BC that is related to the Albany industry of southern Cape Province. Microlithic findings begin in the 8th millennium.

Cave in the Huns Mountains of the extreme south of Namibia, not far from the confluence of the Orange and Great Fish Rivers, which has yielded a long dated sequence of industries extending from "Middle Stone Age’ to recent times. Of particular importance is the series of detached rock slabs bearing rock-paintings, the earliest of which comes from a stratified late ‘Middle Stone Age’ context dating to about the 25th millennium bc. This is by far the oldest dated attestation of the rock art of southern Africa, and shows for the first time that the duration of this art tradition is of the same order of magnitude as that of European Palaeolithic art. Later horizons at the Apollo 11 Cave yielded a scraper-based industry of the 13th-8th millennia bc akin to the contemporary Albany industry of the southern Cape Province. True backed microlithic occurrences began in the 8th millennium.