Oldest drawing ever found

[Maleth]

If a picture tells a thousand words, a cross-hatched design drawn on a fragment of rock some 73,000 years ago could speak volumes. The problem will be understanding what it tells us.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06657-x

 

[bicicleur 2]

yes, this was labelled 'behavourial modernism'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_modernity

as if these humans had undergone some mutations that gave them 'a suite of behavioral and cognitive traits that distinguishes thems from other anatomically modern humans'

and these drawings were seen as the first expression of this

archeologists tried to prove they were ancestral to the Eurasians that expanded 50 ka and ultimately made Neanderthals go extinct
but they never found any prove, it looks like this 80 ka South-African culture simply went extinct

 

[Angela]

Iosif Lazaridis‏ @iosif_lazaridis Sep 12

Couple of questions:
(1) Do people think this is an abstract drawing?

(2) What's the evidence that Homo sapiens was there at the time and is responsible for the drawing?

 

[bicicleur 2]

who else was in S Africa 73 ka ?