100,000-year-old art workshop discovered

The kits used by humans 100,000 years ago to make paint have been found at the famous archaeological site of Blombos Cave in South Africa.The hoard includes 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 their workshop. This extraordinary discovery is reported in the journal Science. It is proof, say researchers, of our early ancestors' complexity of thought. "This is significant because it is pushing back the boundaries of our understanding of when Homo sapiens - people like us - first becam... [More]

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Grind up some ochre, melt some bone-marrow fat, mix the lot with a splash of urine – and paint your body with it. It sounds like an avant-garde performance but it may have happened some 100,000 years ago, in the oldest known artist's workshop – a cave in South Africa.The complex pigments that humans mixed there, and the tools they used to do it, are revealing just how cunning some of our earliest ancestors were. Read more...

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Something very artistic about that.

This has got to be a record of some kind...age wise.