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Pinnacle Point: History, Research & Regions

Pinnacle Point is a small promontory immediately south of Mossel Bay, a town on the southern coast of South Africa. Excavations since the year 2000 of a series of caves at Pinnacle Point, first recognized and documented in 1997 by South African professional archaeologists, Jonathan Kaplan and Peter Nilssen, have revealed occupation by Middle Stone Age…

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Pinnacle Point topic overview

The analysis highlights History, Research and Regions as prominent areas in the source structure around Pinnacle Point.

Related topics
24
Source areas
4
Connected nodes
28
Extracted relationships
55
Concept neighborhoods
17
Bridge connections
28

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

History of the research · 12 topics
Provincial heritage site · 5 topics
Pinnacle Point 13B and its implications for modern behaviour · 4 topics
Overview · 3 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Location
Mossel Bay, Western Cape Province
Criteria
Cultural: iii, iv, v
Inscription
2024 (46th Session)
Official name
Pinnacle Point Site Complex
Part of
The Emergence of Modern Human Behaviour: The Pleistocene Occupation Sites of South Africa

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

History of the research

Pinnacle Point 13B and its implications for modern behaviour

Provincial heritage site

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Pinnacle Point connects Entity context

The extracted context around Pinnacle Point shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Pinnacle Point → Africa, After, Archaeology Program, Arizona State University, As, At, Australia, Curtis Marean, France, Homo, Human Origins, Institute, Israel, Iziko South African Museum, Kaplan, La Trobe University, Nilssen, South Africa, The, UCT Another extracted example is Pinnacle Point → Blombos Cave, Border Cave, December, Diepkloof Rock Shelter, Heritage Western Cape, In, Klasies River Caves, National Heritage Resources Act, On, Section, Sibudu Cave, South African, This, Three, UNESCO, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Status. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Pinnacle Point

Top relations

related to history · 21
Pinnacle Point → Africa, After, Archaeology Program, Arizona State University, As, At, Australia, Curtis Marean, France, Homo, Human Origins, Institute, Israel, Iziko South African Museum, Kaplan, La Trobe University, Nilssen, South Africa, The, UCT
related to Provincial heritage site · 17
Pinnacle Point → Blombos Cave, Border Cave, December, Diepkloof Rock Shelter, Heritage Western Cape, In, Klasies River Caves, National Heritage Resources Act, On, Section, Sibudu Cave, South African, This, Three, UNESCO, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Status
related to Pinnacle Point 13B and its implications for modern behaviour · 8
Pinnacle Point → Also, At PP13B, Blombos Cave, PP13B, The, These, This, Though
related to External links · 2
Pinnacle Point → SAHRA, Site
Coordinates · 1
Pinnacle Point → .mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-pars…
Criteria · 1
Pinnacle Point → Cultural: iii, iv, v
Inscription · 1
Pinnacle Point → 2024 (46th Session)
Location · 1
Pinnacle Point → Mossel Bay, Western Cape Province
Official name · 1
Pinnacle Point → Pinnacle Point Site Complex
Part of · 1
Pinnacle Point → The Emergence of Modern Human Behaviour: The Pleistocene Occupation Sites of South Africa

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

pinnacle point south 000 africa years site heritage sites behaviour african pp13b occupation ago world excavations human 2024 complex modern

Pinnacle Point relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 55 structured relationships around Pinnacle Point. Examples in this analysis include Pinnacle Point → Coordinates → .mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-pars… and Pinnacle Point → Criteria → Cultural: iii, iv, v. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Pinnacle PointCoordinates.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-pars…1.00infobox
Pinnacle PointCriteriaCultural: iii, iv, v1.00infobox
Pinnacle PointInscription2024 (46th Session)1.00infobox
Pinnacle PointLocationMossel Bay, Western Cape Province1.00infobox
Pinnacle PointOfficial namePinnacle Point Site Complex1.00infobox
Pinnacle PointPart ofThe Emergence of Modern Human Behaviour: The Pleistocene Occupation Sites of South Africa1.00infobox
Pinnacle Pointis asmall promontory immediately south of Mossel Bay0.90text
Pinnacle Pointrelated to External linksSite0.60section
Pinnacle Pointrelated to External linksSAHRA0.60section
Pinnacle Pointrelated to historyAfter0.60section
Pinnacle Pointrelated to historyKaplan0.60section
Pinnacle Pointrelated to historyNilssen0.60section

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Pinnacle Point bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Point, Africa and South. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Pinnacle Point
    • Point
    • Africa
    • South
    • Site
    • Curtis
    • Excavations
    • Marean
    • Occupation
    • Resources
    • African
    • Sites
    • Heritage
  • pinnacle point
    • Point
    • Africa
    • South
    • Site
    • Curtis
    • Excavations
    • Marean
    • Occupation
    • Resources
    • African
    • Sites
    • Heritage
  • mossel bay
    • Bay
    • Mossel
    • 13b
    • Kaplan
    • Modern
    • Nilssen
    • Part
    • Pleistocene
    • Africa
    • South
    • Complex
    • Curtis
  • world heritage site
    • Site
    • Sites
    • South
    • Heritage
    • World
    • Part
    • Pleistocene
    • Occupation
    • Pinnacle
    • Point
    • Africa
    • Age
  • iziko south african museum
    • South
    • Heritage
    • Caves
    • Kaplan
    • Nilssen
    • Curtis
    • Excavations
    • Human
    • Marean
    • Occupation
    • Site
    • Sites
  • modern behaviour
    • Modern
    • Evidence
    • Excavations
    • Mossel
    • Nilssen
    • Part
    • Pleistocene
    • Pp13b
    • Years
    • Curtis
    • Marean
    • Occupation
  • pinnacle point 13b and its implications for modern behaviour
    • Point
    • Excavations
    • Behaviour
    • Modern
    • Africa
    • South
    • Evidence
    • Site
    • Bay
    • Documented
    • Kaplan
    • Marine
  • middle stone age
    • 13b
    • Caves
    • Documented
    • Kaplan
    • Marine
    • Nilssen
    • People
    • Stone
    • Cave
    • Evidence
    • Excavations
    • Occupation

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Pinnacle Point, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Pinnacle Point with History of the research. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Pinnacle PointHistory of the research · splits 16 ⟂ 13
Pinnacle PointProvincial heritage site · splits 23 ⟂ 6
Pinnacle PointPinnacle Point 13B and its implications for modern behaviour · splits 24 ⟂ 5
Pinnacle PointOverview · splits 25 ⟂ 4

Map overview Semantic statistics

Pinnacle Point

Nodes29
Edges28
Triples55
Avg. degree1.93
Density0.068966
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Pinnacle Point to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Research & Regions, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Pinnacle Point · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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