The technology of bone tool fabrication in the south‐western Cape, South Africa

Bone tools are to be found in almost every excavation of Later Stone Age sites in southern Africa. A bone tool fabrication area was identified at Kasteelberg on the Vredenberg Peninsula where the entire process of production can be seen. The paper describes the process of bone preparation, experimental work on bone, and compares the finished product from Kasteelberg and other sites in the Cape with ethnographic arrow‐points made by San hunters.