ANTHROPOLOGY
& GEOLOGY
ANTHROPOLOGY
& GEOLOGY
ANTRHOPOLOGY
We have been making incredible anthropological discoveries here on Zuka Private Game Reserve. Geology has catalysed diverse vegetation here, and, subsequently influenced this area to be of importance to prehistoric humans. We are thrilled to discover evidence of this across our archaeological sites, in the tools made from volcanic glass of up to 1.4 million a years old.
Stone tools ranging from early Stone Age to Mid-Iron Age are a profound experience to hold in your own hand as you assimilate how they were made by humans thousands and thousands of years ago.
Getty Asterism enables passionate scientists and experts to conduct research across the reserve, building the geological and anthropological history our land here and adding important missing pieces to the current understanding of early man in Southern Africa.
GEOLOGY
Our geology and geomorphology is strongly influenced being at the southern end of the Lebombo Mountains range (180 million years) which runs through the centre of the reserve. Consequently Zuka Private Game Reserve boats a diverse range of formations, ages and rock types.
In the heart of the reserve, noteworthy as South Africa’s youngest volcanic eruption, is the Bumbeni Complex (133 million years) which created remarkable geological formations. Listed as one of South Africa’s most significant stratovolcanic sites, this gives us basalts to the west, rhyolite in the centre and sections of cretaceous substrate (containing marine fossils and petrified wood) in the eastern section of the reserve.
GEOLOGY
Our geology across the reserve boasts a diverse range of formations, ages and rock types, strongly influencing our location at the southern end of the Lebombo Mountains (180 million years) which runs through the centre of Zuka Private Game Reserve.
In the heart of the reserve, noteworthy as South Africa’s youngest volcanic eruption, is the Bumbeni Complex (133 million years) which created remarkable geological formations. Listed as one of South Africa’s most significant stratovolcanic sites, this gives us basalts to the west, rhyolite in the centre and sections of cretaceous substrate (containing marine fossils and petrified wood) in the eastern section of the reserve.