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Subject: [evol-psych] South African cave reveals the world's oldest
works of art
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 10:11:48 +0000
From: Ian Pitchford <ian.pitchford at scientist.com>
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Independent
South African cave reveals the world's oldest works of art
By Steve Connor Science Editor
11 January 2002

Archaeologists have unearthed the oldest works of art in the world – two
slivers of rock on which Stone Age artists etched symbolic patterns
about
77,000 years ago.

The rock art, found in a cave in South Africa, is twice as old as Stone
Age
cave paintings in southern France and demonstrates that humans living at
this
time possessed "modern" patterns of thought.

Scientists believe that the cross-hatched engravings were carefully
etched on
to the red ochre stones, which are a form of pigmented iron ore that had
been
prepared by rubbing to create a smooth surface. Stone Age societies used
red
ochre symbolically as a body paint, and possibly also for skin
protection and
for tanning hides, but this is the first known example of the ochre
being used
to depict art.

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