An abstract pattern has been engraved on this piece of ocher found at Blombos Cave in the same archaeological stratum that yielded the silcrete flake. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not ...

the unexpected discovery of personal ornaments and art older than 70,000 years ago — shell beads and engraved ochre — at Blombos Cave on the southern Cape coast of South Africa, initiated a ...

Scientists say they have discovered humanity's oldest known drawing on a small fragment of rock in South Africa. The drawing is about 73,000 years old, and shows cross-hatch lines sketched onto ...

100,000 Years AgoPerched 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 ...

These beads, perhaps from a necklace, were made at the very end of the last Ice Age when people first returned to Wales.Prehistoric finds were discovered in a cave on the Great Orme when stone ...

There are few digs on the planet telling us more about the origins of our species than Blombos Cave, on the Cape Coast of South Africa. Since its discovery in the early 1990s, the sandy floors of ...

This story appears in the February 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. She is lying in a cave, dying. Legs and arms but knobby sticks, Lidia Maiyu is curled up close to the campfire.

Evidence from 70,000-year-old processed bones discovered in Blombos Cave, also on South Africa's southern coast, are presumed ...

The Thai cave complex where 12 boys and their football coach became trapped is a snaking system of caverns and crevices which posed a range of problems for rescuers. Some stretches of the Tham ...

14,700 years ago, in a cave in Somerset, our ancestors were eating other people. Museum research reveals these Ice Age Britons weren't eating human flesh out of necessity but as part of a ritual. 'The ...

Ferrite beads are used to suppress unwanted signals that can interfere with electrical devices such as DC supplies, transmission lines and cables. They provide attenuation of selected frequency bands.