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Blombos Cave

archaeological site in Western Cape, South Africa
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Blombos Cave

Summary

Blombos Cave is a cave with prehistoric art[1]. It draws 280 Wikipedia views per month (cave_with_prehistoric_art category, ranking #6 of 52).[2]

Key Facts

  • Blombos Cave is in the country of South Africa[3].
  • Blombos Cave's image is recorded as Blombos.jpg[4].
  • Blombos Cave's instance of is recorded as cave with prehistoric art[5].
  • Blombos Cave's instance of is recorded as archaeological site[6].
  • Blombos Cave's instance of is recorded as cave[7].
  • Blombos Cave's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 315165517[8].
  • Blombos Cave's Commons category is recorded as Blombos Cave[9].
  • Blombos Cave's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': -34.414444444444, 'lon': 21.2225}[10].
  • Blombos Cave's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/08vg0f[11].
  • Blombos Cave's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Blombos Cave[12].
  • Blombos Cave's Commons gallery is recorded as Blombos Cave[13].
  • Blombos Cave's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0281750[14].
  • Blombos Cave's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/Blombos-Cave[15].
  • Blombos Cave's GeoNames ID is recorded as 1018620[16].
  • Blombos Cave's GNS Unique Feature ID is recorded as -1211931[17].
  • Blombos Cave's SAHRA heritage site ID is recorded as 920790008[18].
  • Blombos Cave's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as Blombos[19].
  • Blombos Cave's OpenStreetMap node ID is recorded as 2280259004[20].
  • Blombos Cave's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as cova-de-blombos[21].

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Geography

Blombos Cave is in the country of South Africa[3].

Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include cave with prehistoric art[5], archaeological site[6], and cave[7].

Why It Matters

Blombos Cave draws 280 Wikipedia views per month (cave_with_prehistoric_art category, ranking #6 of 52).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22] It is known by 6 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]

Related Entities

South Africa

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . An abstract drawing from the 73,000-year-old levels at Blombos Cave, South Africa. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . An abstract drawing from the 73,000-year-old levels at Blombos Cave, South Africa. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . GeoNames. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [23] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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