Point of Human Origin in Mossel Bay, South Africa

Point of Human Origin in Mossel Bay, South Africa

Along the rocky coastline of Mossel Bay, a series of caves at Pinnacle Point has reshaped how scientists understand the origins of modern humans. Discovered during an environmental impact survey in the early 2000s, the caves revealed evidence that Homo sapiens lived here between roughly 150,000 and 200,000 years ago. The finds suggest that part of the small ancestral population from which all living humans descend occupied this stretch of coast,…