Blombos Cave is an archaeological site located in Blombosfontein Nature Reserve, about 300 km east of
Cape Town on the Southern Cape coastline,
South Africa. The cave contains
Middle Stone Age deposits currently dated at between c. 100,000 and 70,000 years before present (BP), and a
Late Stone Age sequence dated at between 2000 and 300 years BP. The cave site was first excavated in 1991 and field work has been conducted there on a regular basis since 1997 – and is ongoing.