Canteen Kopje (Q426102)

Canteen Kopje is an archaeological site, formally protected as a grade 2 provincial heritage site, and approved in 2017 for re-grading to national status, situated outside Barkly West in the Northern Cape, South Africa. The place was previously known as Klipdrift, meaning stony drift, a translation from a still earlier !Ora name, !a |aub. Canteen Kopje is best known for its long and exceptionally rich Earlier Stone Age sequence, spanning circa >0.5 to 1.7 million years, occurring within gravels exposed in late nineteenth and early twentieth century mining pits. Also attracting attention are more recent archaeological levels in the overlying Hutton Sands, which contain material known as Fauresmith, Middle Stone Age, Later Stone Age, and late Iron Age with evidence of protocolonial and colonial contact and interaction, probably, with nineteenth century diamond diggers.

Canteen Kopje est un site archéologique de plein air et situé à Barkly West (en) dans la province du Northern Cape en Afrique du Sud. Il a livré des industries lithiques datant du Paléolithique ancien et du Middle Stone Age ainsi que des indices d'occupation du Later Stone Age. Il est classé au titre du Patrimoine provincial. Un circuit de visite et des panneaux d’information ont été aménagés sur place. Des informations complémentaires ainsi que des exemples de vestiges lithiques issus du site et une réplique du crâne de Canteen Kopje sont présentés au Musée de Barkly West et au McGregor Museum de Kimberley.

Canteen Kopje è un sito archeologico risalente al Paleolitico, situato nei pressi di Barkly West, nella provincia del Capo Settentrionale in Sudafrica. Contiene un percorso all'aperto in cui sono disposti cartelli descrittivi. Ulteriori informazioni, con esempi di artefatti recuperati nel sito (ed una copia del teschio di Canteen Kopje), si trovano presso il Barkly West Museum ed il McGregor Museum nella vicina Kimberley.