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[QUOTE]Originally posted by rasol: [QB] [URL=http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/ctl/clihis100k.html][b]The Past 100,000 Years Did Climate Challenge the Creativity of Early Homo sapiens[/b][/URL] [i]It is also known from recent excavations by Chris Henshilwood and others in the Blombos Cave in South Africa that over 70,000 years ago people inhabiting the cave near the tip of the African continent lived a fairly sophisticated and advanced lifestyle (Henshilwood, 2002 ). Making stone and finely hewn bone tools, living on game animals as well as sea food, these Homo sapiens had the same anatomy and brain size as modern humans. They carved abstract symbols and may have painted their bodies red for rituals. Tools had been developed tools for fishing and their delicate bone awls may have been used for leather working. Their lifestyle, in fact, was very similar to that of people who inhabited the same cave only 2,000 years ago. This discovery is an important one, for it suggests that modern human behavior developed in Africa at a much earlier stage than previously thought. Archaeological evidence had until recently a more "eurocentric" focus built around the theory that modern human behavior developed later in Europe, where numerous site dating to around 40,000 years ago have been excavated. Some theorized it was the harsh climate that forced Homo sapiens to become more creative in order to survive, but the new discoveries suggest [b]advances were made *prior* to the last Ice Age in Europe.[/b] The new findings suggest that *prior to coming to Europe*, Homo sapiens had developed "modern" behavior.[/i] [IMG]http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/ctl/images/bifacialbone.jpg[/IMG] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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