The Blombos pebble isn't much to look at, but it's wonderful to think about. What makes it so intriguing is the way that it expands, or perhaps compresses, the whole history of art. That iron oxide ...

Early humans developed sophisticated techniques for sharpening stone spear points more than 75,000 years ago, at least 50,000 years earlier than archaeologists had previously believed, researchers ...

Pictured is a Still Bay bifacial point from Blombos Cave in South Africa made of silcrete and finished by pressure flaking, primarily at the tip. Image courtesy Science/AAAS A highly skillful and ...

Blombos Cave held signs of early human creativity. Centre for Development Studies, University of Bergen, Norway In 2003, a team of anthropologists reported the discovery of three unusual skulls—two ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - 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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rhino drawings from the Chauvet Cave. What constitutes art is heavily debated, and that's especially true for prehistoric art. But ...

It was a Cro Magnon opus. Europe might not be the birthplace of human symbolic culture as previously thought. International scientists have discovered a stencil of a hand in Indonesia that dates back ...

A new study from SapienCE reveals that early modern humans at Blombos Cave in South Africa used ochre as a specialized tool for stone toolmaking during the Middle Stone Age, demonstrating advanced ...

An exciting find in Blombos Cave east of Cape Town, South Africa, is believed to be the world's oldest art studio. According to Discover News, an exciting find in Blombos Cave east of Cape Town, South ...

Blombos Cave interior panorama view. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the Oct. 14, 2011, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Dr. Chris Henshilwood of University of Bergen ...