Blombos Cave Press Articles
Science News - Stone Age paint shop discovered: finds suggest advanced manufacturing knowledge
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November 19, 2011 --
People concocted a colorful pigment of their imagination around 100,000 years ago. In a cave hugging what's now South Africa's coast, Stone...
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Antiquity - David Lewis-Williams. Conceiving God: the cognitive origin and evolution of religion
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March 1, 2011 --
DAVID LEWIS-WILLIAMS. Conceiving God: the cognitive origin and evolution of religion. 320 pages, 50 illustrations. 2010. London: Thames &...
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Science News - Back story: caves of innovation
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November 20, 2010 --
The people who lived at Blombos Cave about 75,000 years ago must have been a pretty impressive bunch. The cave's deposits contain evidence of...
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Antiquity - The wounded roan: a contribution to the relation of hunting and trance in southern African rock art
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March 1, 2005 -- A 1934 photograph of a man dressed in an animal skin and a painting of three figures in a cave at Melikane, Lesotho led to a new hypothesis about...
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Newsweek - Did Early Humans Think?
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January 21, 2002 --
On childhood trips to his grandparents' farm on the western tip of South Africa, Christopher Henshilwood liked to wander the sand dunes and...
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Science News - Stone Age signs of complexity - Anthropology - Brief Article
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January 19, 2002 -- A pair of 77,000-year-old pieces of engraved ochre found in a South African cave lend credence to the view that symbolic forms of thinking,...
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Japan Weekly Monitor - Man knew how to draw abstract images 77,000 years ago.
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January 14, 2002 --
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 Kyodo
Modern man, at least in southern Africa, was capable of creating abstract images more than 40,000...
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Antiquity - An engraved bone fragment from c. 70,000-year-old Middle Stone Age levels at Blombos Cave, South Africa: implications for the origin of symbolism and language
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June 1, 2001 -- Examination of marks on a bone from Blombos Cave reveals that they were intentionally engraved and there is evidence of bone working techniques at...
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Antiquity - A revised chronology for pastoralism in southernmost Africa: new evidence of sheep at c. 2000 b.p. from Blombos Cave, South Africa
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December 1, 1996 -- New excavation at Blombos Cave in the southern Cape of South Africa provides archaeological evidence suggesting a chronological linkage between the...
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