Nelson Bay Cave

1.      The location and the cave offer many natural advantage and very comfortable dwelling place. The cave opening faces south and is 100 feet wide; inside there is  a spacious chamber  roughly 30 feet high and 100  to 150  feet deep; a spring rises at the very back and has done so for  more than 35,000 years, so the cave has always convenient  supply of fresh water.  

2.      The archaeologist conclude that the Nelson Bay Cave dwellers rarely went to the sea because the cave  is 50 miles away from the sea and there is no fossils of marine life excavated in the cave.

3.      The Nelson Bay people hunt animals like antelope, ostrich, baboons, and giant buffalo) that roamed around in the wide plain, this serve as their foods. They also eat berries, see and root crops and bulb.

4.      Since, the cave opened overlooked an open grassed studded with low-growing trees and the sea is 50 miles away the archeologist concluded and determined their diet. They believed that Nelson Bay Cave people hunt animals and gather berries and bulb to sustain their lives.  Aside form this, the cave contain no marine life fossils that may link that they engaged in fishing or other related activities.

5.      To make the cave more homelike, its occupants added certain refinement. They construct hearth and they also set up a semi-circular windbreaks to comfort them during winter.

6.      Based from the postholes which are still available there, the archaeologist determined that there was a windbreak erected between the hearths and the mouth of the cave. They also concluded that they set it up semi-circular surrounding the hearth.

7.      Windbreak was very important to them for because it comforts them especially in winter, for the climate of South Africa was cooler then than now.