Motsetsi
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Motsetsi Cave (also known as Motsetse) is a fossil-bearing breccia filled cavity located about east of the well known South African hominid-bearing sites of Sterkfontein and Kromdraai and about north-northwest of Johannesburg, South Africa. Motsetsi has been declared a South African National Heritage Site.
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Motsetsi Cave (also known as Motsetse) is a fossil-bearing breccia filled cavity located about east of the well known South African hominid-bearing sites of Sterkfontein and Kromdraai and about north-northwest of Johannesburg, South Africa. Motsetsi has been declared a South African National Heritage Site.
==History of investigations== thumb|Students digging in the main excavation at Motsetse Cave. Peter Schmid, long-time collaborator is in the foreground. Motsetsi has been investigated since its discovery by Lee Berger in 1999. Since then a series of part-time excavations have recovered tens of thousands of fossils. Excavations have been conducted at Motsetse by the University of the Witwatersrand and at times in conjunction with Peter Schmid of the University of Zurich. Only a very small part of this site has been excavated.
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