Klasies , site of paleoanthropological excavations carried out in a complex of South African coastal caves since the late 1960s. Normally referred to as the Klasies River Mouth, the site has some of the oldest evidence of it Homo Sapiens .
Discoveries made at Klasies have played a key role in the search for the origin of modern humans. The ones found there human Remains, tools, and other evidence of human activity may date as far back as 120,000 years. Although the material is fragmentary, enough survives to show that the people who lived there, unlike Neanderthals or other archaic Humans (Genus Homo ) essentially modern . The residents von Klasies possessed prominent chins, modern faces, and limbs like those of modern humans.
In the oldest archaeological layers are Middle Paleolithic tools on flake base that traditionally known as Mesolithic Africa are called . About 70,000 years ago, a blade-based industry called Howieson's Poort begins; This industry is a ancestors the technology Upper Paleolithic . Analysis of animal remains found at the site reveals some of the earliest evidence of human exploitation of marine resources such as shellfish.