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make a sensational discovery. The excavation provided a sequence of layers of human settlement spanning more than 100,000 years.
No other excavation site in the country reflects Namibia's prehistoric past more completely.
The discovery of the painted slabs, the age of which can be put at 26-28,000 years by radio-carbon dating, is of outstanding importance. This makes
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these drawings not only the oldest works of art in Africa, they are among the oldest evidence of artistic activity worldwide.
The drawings were found in the most recent layer of the Middle Stone Age in the “Apollo 11” cave. The Middle Stone Age began almost 200,000 years ago in Africa at the same time as the earliest occurrence of modern homo sapiens, whereas in the northern hemisphere
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