CTS Heritage

10/12/2024

Looking forward to the next gen of Heritage Practitioners!

08/09/2020

Thanks Cape Town Etc :)

The Cape is home to over 3 000 discovered rock art sites with the Cederberg Mountains boasting more rock art images per square kilometre. Now you can explore these sites through virtual tours online.

04/09/2020

The Cederberg Mountains in the Western Cape of South Africa boast more rock art images per square kilometre than any other area in the world. There are a total of over 3 000 discovered sites in the Cederberg area, compared to 280 in France and Spain combined. Both Sevilla and Warmhoek form part of the Cradle of Human Culture route “The Artists Journey”. Both trails include numerous individual rock art sites left behind by past inhabitants of the landscape and are well known for the high quality and fascinating images that are depicted here.

Just in time for Heritage Month, CTS Heritage along with the Rock Art Portal and the Living Landscapes Project have developed two panoramic virtual tours of these significant rock art trails available online and free to the public

The Western Cape of South Africa has been inhabited by humans and their ancestors for at least a million years. Earlier Stone Age artefacts date to between about 2 million and 200,000 years ago. These hunter-gatherers apparently did not make rock paintings. Middle Stone Age artefacts have also been....

08/05/2020

This is amazing!!!

A living being on the planet, a new virus, an invisible, microscopic living being, has just reminded us of the fragility of the human species. How can we react to a planetary phenomenon that plunges us into the unknown when we thought we had mastered the world and nature? On the one hand, this healt...

12/06/2019

Increased focus on social and ecological justice issues in the heritage sector!

Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA) are a requirement for many large projects, which give the red, amber or green light to sustainable development projects in South Africa. However, the recent papers on the required Climate Change adaptation pathways by the IPCC and the IPBES paper on the signifi...

11/04/2019

A recent project we have been working on with DCAS - launched today by the Premier of the Western Cape!

Premier Helen Zille launched the Cradle of Human Culture - archaeological, paleontological heritage routes with three anchor sites in the Western Cape

20/12/2018

CTS Heritage is closing for the festive season - see you all in 2019 when we will be in new offices!

21/09/2018

The same technology has located Mayan cities.

12/09/2018

Exciting finds at Blombos!

Archaeologists have made an incredible finding of a human drawing that dates back more than 70,000 years, making it the oldest human drawing ever discovere