In a sense, it will be a pilgrimage to our ancient ancestry. Blombos Cave near Still Bay is known worldwide for evidence found there of our cognitive origins as a species, including a small piece ...

The world’s oldest known drawing has been identified on a small stone flake recovered in South Africa’s Blombos Cave. The tiny fragment measures less than two inches long and barely half an ...

“The Manot Cave ritual compound also marks the shift to animal representations. While early engravings, evident in the Middle Stone Age and Middle Paleolithic sites such as Blombos ...

100,000 Years AgoPerched near Africa's southern tip, Blombos Cave has yielded some of the earliest evidence of symbolic expression, including shell beads, engraved ocher, and ocher-processing kits ...