Botswana: Achaeologists invade Seo Pan

The Department of National Museum and Monuments in partnership with field achaeologists from Oxford, Southampton University, and a geologist from Egypt have come together to do archaeological surveys at Seo Pan near Maleshe, 20km from Tsabong.

Spearheads from north-western Botswana 
[Credit: Sheila Coulson]

In an interview recently, the museum archaeologist, Phillip Segadika revealed that Seo Pan Site had stone tools such as Acheulian handaxes, blades, various flakes, cores and bifacialas that suggested the site had a combination of both the Early and Middle Stone Age relics.

He said from comparative grating of similar artefacts in sites in southern Africa, Seo Pan was occupied about 160,000 years ago and even possibly as far as 250,000 years.

"I first discovered in November 2000 when I was then a private consulting archaeologist in the Tsabong water surveys projects" Segadika said.

The site has now been ear marked as a major beneficiary of the Presidential initiative known as the 100 Monuments Project.

He said by April 2016, the site will be open to the public and will have guides and custodians, information boards, brochures, trails and access route developments and in due course, a gate house.

Author: Aobakwe Molefhi | Source: AllAfrica [September 16, 2015]