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    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...
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    behavior. Blombos Cave and Site 440 in Sudan both show evidence of fishing as well. Taphonomic change in fish skeletons from Blombos Cave have been interpreted...
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    behavior. Blombos Cave and Site 440 in Sudan both show evidence of fishing as well. Taphonomic change in fish skeletons from Blombos Cave have been interpreted...
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    worked in Blombos Cave, in what became South Africa. They made the earliest paint workshop now known, but apparently did not dwell in the caves. Especially...
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    000 years old artefacts in Buya, Eritrea and in other places such as Blombos cave in South Africa. More complex social groupings emerged, supported by...
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  • period comes from Middle Paleolithic/Middle Stone Age sites such as Blombos Cave in the form of bracelets, beads, art rock, ochre used as body paint and...
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    (before 300 kya) and the "Venus of Berekhat Ram" (250 kya). In 2002 in Blombos cave, situated in South Africa, stones were discovered engraved with grid...
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    evidence of human fishing is also noted, from artifacts in places such as Blombos cave in South Africa. Archaeologists classify artifacts of the last 50,000...
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    modern human behavior is traced back to sites in this region, including Blombos Cave, Howiesons Poort, Still Bay, and Pinnacle Point. The term "Middle Stone...
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    engravings and have been dated to more than 57,000 years ago. Similarly, the Blombos Cave of South Africa yielded some stones with engraved grid or cross-hatch...
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    Rock art (redirect from Cave inscription)
    (October 2018). "An abstract drawing from the 73,000-year-old levels at Blombos Cave, South Africa" (PDF). Nature. 562 (7725): 115–118. Bibcode:2018Natur...
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    prehistoric ivory sculpture discovered in Hohlenstein-Stadel, a German cave, part of the Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura UNESCO World Heritage Site...
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    Cave in Namibia are estimated to date from approximately 25,500–27,500 years ago. In 2011, archaeologists found a small rock fragment at Blombos Cave...
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  • behavior. Blombos Cave and Site 440 in Sudan both show evidence of fishing as well. Taphonomic change in fish skeletons from Blombos Cave have been interpreted...
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    the Blombos Cave in South Africa. A collection of twenty-eight bone tools were recovered from 70 thousand year old Middle Stone Age levels at Blombos Cave...
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    behavior, but this view was modified after discoveries in MSA sites such as Blombos Cave and Pinnacle Point. LSA sites also greatly outnumber MSA sites in Africa...
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    Mousterian tools. The archaeological cave site of Azykh contains Mousterian relics in the overlying strata. In this cave, a lower jaw of a hominid named Azykhantrop...
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    Magdalenian peoples produced a wide variety of art, including figurines and cave paintings. Evidence has been found suggesting that Magdalenian peoples regularly...
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    red ochre, while the back side of it showed heavy traces of use. In Blombos cave, two ochre fragments have been found, which bear engraved geometric patterns...
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    behavior. Blombos Cave and Site 440 in Sudan both show evidence of fishing as well. Taphonomic change in fish skeletons from Blombos Cave have been interpreted...
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  • name. The Cango caves in western cape. African cave paintings Lithic Industries at Blombos Cave, Southern Cape, South Africa Wonder Caves Praying Mary Aïn...
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    architecture Burdei Cave Cliff dwelling Dugout Hut Quiggly hole Jacal Longhouse Mudbrick Mehrgarh Pit-house Pueblitos Pueblo Rock shelter Blombos Cave Abri de la...
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  • that period in Africa, especially South, North, and East Africa. The Blombos Cave site in South Africa, for example, is famous for rectangular slabs of...
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    Europe and Southeast Asia, beginning around 50,000 years ago. Non-figurative cave paintings, consisting of hand stencils and simple geometric shapes, are somewhat...
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    Upper Paleolithic, is a widespread phenomenon, much less well known than the cave-paintings of the Upper Paleolithic, with which it makes an interesting contrast...
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  • that the earliest known controlled use of fire took place in Wonderwerk Cave, South Africa, 1.0 Mya. Findings from Wonderwerk provide the earliest evidence...
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    Cave of Aurignac Bacho Kiro cave Chauvet Cave Hohle Fels Ksar Akil Hayonim Cave Cave of Aurignac Bacho Kiro cave Chauvet Cave Hohle Fels Potok Cave Ksar...
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    describe two regional variants: the western Gravettian, known mainly from cave sites in France, Spain and Britain, and the eastern Gravettian in Central...
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    cave: The most accurate timeline yet of who used the cave and when". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 22 December 2016. Aczel, Amir D. (2000). The Cave and...
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  • calendars still earlier—Rappenglück in the marks on a c. 17,000 year-old cave painting at Lascaux and Marshack in the marks on a c. 27,000 year-old bone...
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