Boskop is a small village 16 km north of
Potchefstroom
Potchefstroom ( ; ), colloquially known as Potch, is an college town, academic city in the North West (South African province), North West Province of South Africa. It hosts the Potchefstroom Campus of the North-West University. Potchefstro ...
. In 1913, the
Boskop Man was found here, the first local
anatomically modern human
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skull to be discovered. Consisting only of a post office and railway station on the route Potchefstroom-Welverdiend, the name is Afrikaans and means 'bush hill'.
See also
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Boskop Man
References
{{Dr Kenneth Kaunda District Municipality
Populated places in the JB Marks Local Municipality