Burchell's Shelter
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| Location | Campbell, Northern Cape, South Africa |
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| Coordinates | 28°48′58″S 23°43′35″E / 28.816205°S 23.726421°E |
| Type | Stone Age shelter |
| History | |
| Periods | Holocene and 19th century |
| Site notes | |
| Archaeologists | Anthony Humphreys |
Burchell's Shelter is a small rock overhang and archaeological site located in a kloof in the Ghaap Escarpment at Campbell in the Northern Cape, South Africa. As an archaeological site it has a shallow deposit containing late Holocene, mainly nineteenth century[clarification needed] remains. Further interest in the shelter derives from the existence of an eyewitness description by the traveller William Burchell of the last Stone Age hunter-gatherers who inhabited the shelter.[1] Hence it presented an opportunity, recognised by archaeologist Anthony Humphreys, to examine the occupation of the shelter from both an historical and an archaeological point of view.[2]
