Blombos Cave is an archaeological site located in Blombos Private Nature Reserve, about 300 km east of Cape Town on the Southern Cape coastline, South Africa. The cave contains Middle Stone Age deposi
The history of art focuses on objects made by humans for any number of spiritual, narrative, philosophical, symbolic, conceptual, documentary, decorative, and even functional and other purposes, but w
Blombos Cave
…extended over a larger surface," said archaeologist and lead author of the study Christopher Henshilwood. Pigments and engraved pieces of ochre Claimed "Oldest known drawing by human hands", discovered in Blombos Cave in South Africa. Estimated to be 73,000 years old. Possible rock art, Blombos cave. Ochre – an iron-rich mineral – is…