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Blombos Cave Ochre Toolkits Oct 20th 2011, 10:03 Blombos Cave is a justifiably famous Middle Stone Age site in South Africa, with hominin (ancestral human) occupations dated beginning at least as early as 140,000 years ago. Most of the research at Blombos has been focused on the Howiesons Poort and Still Bay occupations dated between 70,000 and 100,000 years ago: the importance of these discoveries at Blombos have sparked additional research along the South African coast at sites such as Pinnacle Point, Sibudu Cave, and Rose Cottage Cave. Together, these sites have realigned scientific notions of the origins of early modern behavior, pushing back the dates of evidence of sophisticated cognitive actions such as flint working, ritual behaviors and personal decoration some 50,000 years earlier than the cave paintings of Upper Paleolithic Europe. This photo essay illustrates the latest findings at Blombos cave, reported in Science magazine on October 14, 2011: two tool kits for making paint, dated to 100,000 years ago. Sources Blombos Cave Ochre Guide to the Middle Stone Age Howiesons Poort and Still Bay Early Modern Behavior Blombos Cave Official Site Henshilwood C, D'Errico F, Van Niekerk K, Coquinot Y, Jacobs Z, Lauritzen S-E, Menu M, and Garcia-Moreno R. 2011. A 100,000-Year-Old Ochre-Processing Workshop at Blombos Cave, South Africa. Science 334:219-222. Wadley L. 2010. Cemented ash as a receptacle or work surface for ochre powder production at Sibudu, South Africa, 58,000 years ago. Journal of Archaeological Science 37(10):2397-2406.

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