The Bushman Rock Shelter and Heuningneskrans sites are in the district of Ohrigstad (Limpopo Province), in the North of the Drakensberg range. Both sites are less than 4 km apart and are located on each side of Ohrigstad River Valley. Excavated in the late 1960s and 1970s by Prof. Hannes Eloff, Bushman Rock Shelter has yielded well-preserved evidence of human occupation dating back to the Middle and Later Stone Age. The mineral (stone tools, pigments) and organic remains (bones, shells, charcoals, seeds, korms), preserved across the 7 meters deep sequence, are key proxies documenting behaviours and lifeways of hunters-gatherers in a changing environment spanning the last 200,000 years.
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