Art reserve found in cavern in South Africa

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WASHINGTON — Researchers in South Africa have detected what might have been a world’s beginning artist’s studio.

A 100,000-year-old seminar used to brew and store a reddish colouring ochre has been detected in Blombos Cave on a imperishable southern seashore nearby Cape Town. At a same site, scientists have found some of a beginning pointy mill tools, as good as justification of fishing.

The latest find is reported in today’s book of a biography Science. It includes pieces of ochre, harsh bowls, shells for storage and bone and colourless to brew with a pigment.

Lead researcher Christopher Henshilwood of a University of Bergen, Norway, pronounced a find represents an critical benchmark in a expansion of formidable tellurian mental processes.

The ochre could have been used for painting, emblem and skin protection, according to a researchers.




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