We had a lecture by a PhD post-doc who works on the site at Drimolen and other nearby sites. His work is on hand-held stone tools, but he has excavated at all the local sites. This area is where the Australopithecus was first discovered, and Drimolen itself is the second largest fossil site for their remains. In addition to a tour in the cave site, we also had a walk to a newly discovered site nearby (where we could actually see fossilized hominid remains still in the walls). And we had the chance to view cast skulls from various hominids as we learned about human evolution.
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