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an explorer in Blombos Cave on the southern coast of South Africa
December 29, 2014 | Artists’ Cave
Perched near Africa’s southern tip, Blombos Cave has yielded some of the earliest evidence of symbolic expression, including shell beads, engraved ocher, and ocher-processing kits that are 100,000 years old.
See more photos from the January 2015 feature story “First Artists.”
