Where did the first people come from? The case for a coastal migration from southern Africa A coastal migration up and out of Africa was more likely to succeed than an overland journey.

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Before Sephora, there was ochre. Engraved at Blombos Cave ~77kya, it shows some of the earliest symbolic art.
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Ochre as Craft: When Early Humans Turned Pigment into Precision New evidence from Blombos Cave reveals ochre was more than paint—it was a tool for master knappers

Ancient ochre wasn’t just for body paint. At Blombos Cave, early humans shaped it into precision tools for crafting stone blades. Ochre, it turns out, was part of the toolkit. #HumanEvolution #BlombosCave #Archaeology #StoneAge #MSA

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An abstract drawing from the 73,000-year-old levels at Bl... A silcrete flake with a 73,000-year-old cross-hatched och...

Original study by Christopher S. Henshilwood et al. in @nature, published 12 September 2018:

"An abstract drawing from the 73,000-year-old levels at #BlombosCave, #SouthAfrica" - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0514-3