Blombos cave is a cave in a limestone cliff on the Southern Cape coast in South Africa. It is an archaeological site made famous for the discovery of paleolithic art there that dates from around 70,000 BCE.
Stony Brook, NY (1/10/02)- The discovery of paleolithic art in a cave in South Africa is causing researchers to consider an older and less Euro-centric view of the origins of what is considered 'modern behavior'.
The earlier discovery of Paleolithic art such as the beautiful cave painting in the caves of Lascaux and Chauvet along the northern slopes of the Pyrenees revolutionized ideas of what primitive human culture might have been capable of.
The artifacts discovered in Blomboscave were made of the iron ore stone ochre.
For archeologists in Africa, BlombosCave is a windfall.
Other researchers participating in the BlombosCave study included Francesco d’Errico, of the Institut de Prehistoire de Geologie du Quaternaire in France, Richard G. Milo, of the Department of Geography, Economics, and Anthropology at Chicago State University, and Royden Yates, of the Iziko-South African Museum in Cape Town, South Africa.
BlombosCave’s bones were preserved because the earth surrounding them contained crushed sea shells.
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