Stone in South African cave boasts oldest-known human drawing

Thursday, September 20, 2018 - 03:29 in Paleontology & Archaeology

A small stone flake marked with intersecting lines of red ochre pigment some 73,000 years ago that was found in a cave on South Africa's southern coast represents what archaeologists on Wednesday called the oldest-known example of human drawing.

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