Archeology

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The man began to draw before the talk and politics

In the Republic of South Africa found evidence that the person became an artist almost immediately I started walking on two legs, namely about 200,000 years ago. In the cave of Blombos discovered the oldest factory paint.

This cave has long been known to archaeologists - have been unearthed here the ancient works of art: a piece of ocher with geometric engravings, bone tools and beads made of small shells, created for 70-80 thousand years BC

The new finding is even older at 20 - 30 thousand years. Stone tools and shells with remnants of ocher, bones and charcoal, grinding stones and quartzite hammers, bone blades for grinding and mixing the pigment found in the cave, as it turned out, were used for the manufacture of paint, not glue or mastic, as was previously believed, says CNews.

Ocher, which gives the red color was mined nearby. It was ground into a fine powder, then poured into the sink, added pounded charcoal, fat-rich fresh animal bones, water, and heated in the fire, stirring, until it obtained a homogeneous paint the desired color.

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