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AFTER TIME

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Lesley Beake

Even the sound of the sea on the rocks far below, even the sea was quiet today.

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I’m reserving judgment on Tim because he doesn’t say very much. Ben doesn’t say very much either, but his is a strong silence. Tim’s might be an “I haven’t got much to say” silence, so I am waiting to see.

And why are we all here? Well, the main purpose of the exercise is to (carefully) retrieve from the ground … well, anything that might be interesting, but usually isn’t, and then transfer it, by way of sieving, onto trays and then sort it into packets, which Nadia labels in her rather Gothic script and which will, ultimately, be taken back in boxes to the University of Cape Town, where more people will examine and discuss our little bits of bone, stone, charcoal and shell – and the occasional ostrich-shell bead. They haven’t found any more of the Middle Stone Age tools Peter discovered here last year, lying on the dune rock not far away, and there’s been no drama either, just endless loads of bits with no real significance (that I can see) in the greater scheme of things.

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