{"id":17416,"date":"2018-09-12T21:29:01","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T21:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allworldsnews.com\/worlds\/oldest-known-drawing-found-on-tiny-rock-in-south-africa\/01"},"modified":"2018-09-12T21:29:01","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T21:29:01","slug":"oldest-known-drawing-found-on-tiny-rock-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/?p=17416","title":{"rendered":"‘Oldest known drawing’ found on tiny rock in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"The Image copyright Reuters Image caption The drawing dates back 73,000 years <\/p>\n

Scientists say they have discovered humanity’s oldest known drawing on a small fragment of rock in South Africa.<\/p>\n

The drawing is about 73,000 years old, and shows cross-hatch lines sketched onto stone with red ochre pigment.<\/p>\n

Scientists discovered the small fragment of the drawing – which some say looks a bit like a hashtag – in Blombos Cave on the southern coast.<\/p>\n

The find is “a prime indicator of modern cognition” in our species, the report says.<\/p>\n

While scientists have found older engravings around the world, research published on Wednesday in the journal Nature says the lines on this stone mark the first abstract drawing.<\/p>\n

Image copyright Reuters Image caption Scientists found the stone fragment in Blombos Cave, 300 kilometres (185 miles) east of Cape Town <\/p>\n

Humanity has used ochre, a clay earth pigment, for at least 285,000 years.<\/p>\n

The drawing was “probably more complex” in its entirety, archaeologist Christopher Henshilwood told Reuters.<\/p>\n

“The abrupt termination of all lines on the fragment edges indicates that the pattern originally extended over a larger surface,” he said.<\/p>\n

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Mr Henshilwood works at Norway’s University of Bergen and South Africa’s University of the Witwatersrand and led the research into the drawing. <\/p>\n

He told Reuters that while the team would be “hesitant to call it art”, it almost definitely had “some meaning to the maker”. <\/p>\n

There have been numerous other artefacts found in Blombos Cave, 300 kilometres (185 miles) east of Cape Town, including beads covered in red ochre, engraved ochre fragments, and a paint-making kit dating back around 100,000 years. <\/p>\n

Modern man, known as homo sapiens, is first known to have appeared more than 315,000 years ago in what is now Africa.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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