Pictured is a Still Bay bifacial point from Blombos Cave in South Africa made of silcrete and finished by pressure flaking, primarily at the tip. Image courtesy Science/AAAS A highly skillful and ...

One of the most hotly debated questions in the history of Neanderthal research has been whether they created art. In the past few years, the consensus has become that they did, sometimes. But, like ...

A new study from SapienCE reveals that early modern humans at Blombos Cave in South Africa used ochre as a specialized tool for stone toolmaking during the Middle Stone Age, demonstrating advanced ...

Blombos Cave held signs of early human creativity. Centre for Development Studies, University of Bergen, Norway In 2003, a team of anthropologists reported the discovery of three unusual skulls—two ...

The Blombos pebble isn't much to look at, but it's wonderful to think about. What makes it so intriguing is the way that it expands, or perhaps compresses, the whole history of art. That iron oxide ...

An exciting find in Blombos Cave east of Cape Town, South Africa, is believed to be the world's oldest art studio. According to Discover News, an exciting find in Blombos Cave east of Cape Town, South ...

A highly skillful and delicate method of sharpening and retouching stone artifacts by prehistoric people appears to have been developed at least 75,000 years ago, more than 50,000 years earlier than ...