Based on decades of archaeological research and despite some amount of debate within the archaeological community concerning the details, archaeologists are agreed that the the people who made the megamiddens were hunter-gatherers, who lived near the coast of South Africa and depended for a brief while on the briefly abundant numbers of black mussels. They likely lived in dispersed base camps, which may have been located near the middens or in nearby rockshelters such as Pancho's Kitchen Midden. The most substantial occupation of any residential site in the western Cape at this time is Steenbokfontein, and with its rock art and central location, it is believed this may have been a gathering point for the coastal inhabitants of the western Cape.
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