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2 unusual facts about Louis Péringuey


Stellenbosch

Stone tools dating to the Paleolithic Era have been found at Stellenbosch, first described by Louis Péringuey in 1899.

Wildebeest Kuil Rock Art Centre

A comment made to Louis Péringuey in 1909 by missionary Westphal refers to the last Khoe-San occupants of the site being “’Scheelkoos’ and his family” - a rare reference to a named Khoe-San individual from the protocolonial frontier era in South Africa.



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