The entrance to a nondescript cave on a south-facing slope of the Swartberg Mountains, overlooking the Little Karoo, holds in its earthen floor a history of dramatic climatic change, and hunter-communities who were climate refugees as a warming world inundated their foraging grounds with a rising ocean. 

An intimate portrait emerges of a San hunter-gatherer clan from about 3,000 years ago, whose favourite haunt was a peninsula that juts into Plettenberg Bay. After almost five decades of breaking new ground in the field, pioneering African archaeologist Professor Judith Sealy recounts a story that remains close to her heart.