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South Africa and Lesotho (SAL) have been inhabited by tool-producing hominins for at least two million years. Most of the information we have about the activities and technological skills of Stone Age people is thanks to the durability of stone tools that not only provide evidence for the presence of humans, but more importantly, encode human technological achievements during more than 99% of the history of our genus. The characteristics of this long and probably continuous history of human occupation of an extensive landmass have been influenced to some extent by changes in demography, socioeconomic factors and environmental variations affected by geology, geomorphology, climate, fauna and flora. The result is an extraordinarily rich and complex record of social and technological changes throughout the Stone Age. Archaeological research over the past century or more has uncovered an ever …