Abstract
THE Mumbwa caves have long been known. Yet, in spite of the fact that in South Africa prehistoric cave sites are few and far between, only now has efficient and systematic investigation been undertaken. F. Macrae, many years ago, was the first to make some trial excavations, the resulting finds from which are in the Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, but no complete investigation was attempted. Macrae unearthed a really fine Acheulean type of coup de poing in the basal level, and this was covered by other layers containing poor Middle Stone Age industries. A characteristic feature was the number of spherical stone balls found. Now at last a detailed account of the whole section actually present has been prepared (“Further Excavations (1939) at the Mumbwa Caves, Northern Rhodesia”, by J. Desmond Clark, Trans. Boy. Soc. of S. Africa, 29, Pt. 111).
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