The world’s oldest known drawing has been identified on a small stone flake recovered in South Africa’s Blombos Cave. The tiny fragment measures less than two inches long and barely half an ...

Reuters Scientists found the stone fragment in Blombos Cave, 300 kilometres (185 miles) east of Cape Town Humanity has used ochre, a clay earth pigment, for at least 285,000 years. The drawing was ...

An abstract pattern has been engraved on this piece of ocher found at Blombos Cave in the same archaeological stratum that yielded the silcrete flake. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not ...

Blombos Cave near Still Bay is known worldwide for ... “We survived as a species in the Middle Stone Age because we became ...

but do not constitute representational art The first evidence for drawing were found on rocks in the Blombos Caves in southern Africa and dates back to between 75,000 to 100,000 years ago.

100,000 Years AgoPerched near Africa's southern tip, Blombos Cave has yielded some of the earliest ... known as Klipdrift Shelter, adding some stone tools and other new finds to the mounting ...

This is the outside of Blombos Cave in the southern Cape in South Africa. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by ...

"The Manot Cave ritual compound also marks the shift to animal representations. While early engravings, evident in the Middle Stone Age and Middle Paleolithic sites such as Blombos, Qafzeh, and Gorham ...