they found ? in south africa

[joewest]

wait till they find 'em down at the end of south america.......hehe

They Found WHAT In South Africa?

  By Cathryn Conroy, Netscape News Editor
  Cave art--and it's far older than anything
  previously found. Anthropologists have
  found prehistoric art in a cave about 180
  miles east of Cape Town, South Africa.
  What makes this find extraordinary is
  that it dates back 70,000 years--tens of
  thousands of years earlier than
  conventional wisdom holds that humans
  could do such things. What was found
  were elaborately carved pieces of ocher,
  a red stone still used today to make
  powder and paint.

  What IS ocher? Find out here from
  Encyclopedia.com.

  The tools are utilitarian and decorative. "I
  think these are abstract images,
  deliberately carved, which have some
  symbolic value or some symbolic
  meaning to the person who carved them
  and also to other people in the cave site
  who lived there," Christopher
  Henshilwood, an anthropologist at Iziko
  Museums of Cape Town in South Africa
  and also of the State University of New
  York, told Reuters. The abstract
  carvings, which are similar in design to
  cave art dating back 35,000 years, could
  indicate these early cave dwellers had
  modern language. In others words,
  humans 70,000 years ago were mentally
  evolved. They were more than thugs.
  They created art. The Blombos cave site
  which is located on a 120-foot-high cliff
  has been a bonanza for anthropologists,
  who have previously found 28 decorative
  bone tools there. Henshilwood's team
  found evidence these humans fished.
  "Fishing is also one of the markers used
  for modern human behavior," he told
  Reuters, adding that it is significant the
  carvings were found in Africa where
  humans originated.

[Carmen]

Now that's interesting

Would be good to see pictures of what they look like

 

Carmen

joewest <joe...@gwe.net> wrote in message news:3C3FCFFC...@gwe.net...

[Bright Thunder]

They look like you    double ugly.

                 JBT

Carmen wrote:

Now that's interestingWould be good to see pictures of what they look like Carmen

joewest <joe...@gwe.net> wrote in message news:3C3FCFFC...@gwe.net...wait till they find 'em down at the end of south america.......hehe