Adventure & eco tourism
palaeontology...
The National Museum in Bloemfontein has a large variety of archaeological exhibits and is renowned, both locally and internationally, for its most important exhibit - the Florisbad skull. This skull fragrant was discovered in 1932, at Florisbad, a natural mineral spring, just north of the city of Bloemfontein.
Today, the Florisbad skull is accepted as that of an archaic Homo sapiens (people who were almost, but not entirely modern humans) and it is dated at approximately 260 000 years old. Fully moderns humans - such as the San hunters living at Florisbad at the time - were believed to have appeared in Southern Africa about 120 000 years ago. Fossil finds were during the 1920s and 1930s excavations at the Florisbad site yielded interesting discoveries such as rare and distinct animal fossils.
