Southern Africa: World Stunned As Cape Cave Delivers Big Find On Early Man

Cape Town — THE INTERNATIONAL archaeological community has been stunned by a find in a cave on the southern African coastline which proves that modern humans were living there about 77 000 years ago.

Until now, the most compelling evidence for cognitive, or thinking, abilities considered a key to modern human behaviour, has been abstract images by the famed cave painters of the Upper Palaeolithic era in Eurasia, dating back about 35 000 years.

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