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Full Story: BBC by Jonathan Amos
Tools found at the archaeological site
The remains of material found at the famous archaeological site of Blombos Cave, located on the southern Cape Coast, 300km east of Cape Town - South Africa, show that humans painted just like painters do today. The assertion is based on the material like red and yellow pigments, shell containers, and the grinding cobbles and bone spatulas to work up a paste - everything an ancient artist might need in his workshop, some 100,000 years ago. "This is significant because it is pushing back the boundaries of our understanding of when Homo sapiens - people like us - first became modern," said Prof Christopher Henshilwood from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
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