South Africa: 'Oldest Known Drawing' a Hashtag Found in South Africa

13 September 2018

The sketch was drawn on a tiny piece of rock some 73,000 years ago by hunter-gatherers in South Africa. The abstract design has a vague resemblance to a popular symbol of the internet age -- the hashtag.

Scientists have found a tiny fragment of rock marked with intersecting lines of red ocher pigment some 73,000 years ago.

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