World Heritage Site – Mosselbay

World Heritage Site – Mosselbay

Pinnacle Point Site Complex in Mossel Bay forms part of the Cradle of Human Culture and is also a UNESCO World Heritage site. Unlike other sites that can be remote, dry and downright inhospitable, the archaeological findings here are set against a stunning backdrop of seaside caves so cosy that generations of families sought shelter in them. Furthermore, as the sites you can visit in Mossel Bay form part of on-going excavation and advanced research projects, new discoveries are taking place all the time, and since one of the discoverers of the sites at Pinnacle Point in 1997 is a local archaeological tour guide, visitors may be among the first to hear about it.

The Cradle of Human Culture traces the origins and development of human culture over the past 160 000 years and, in the process, it also uncovers what it means to be human.