Their first step in this process was establishing what substance was used to create the cave drawings. “Black drawings in the region have been made for thousands of years,” study co-author and ...

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Many of the pigments turned out to be made of a black organic material, and radiocarbon dating revealed that the cave drawings were made in three phases: the earliest, of abstract and geometric ...

It looks a bit like a hashtag, but it's 73,000 years old. And scientists say this tiny sketch found in a South African cave is the oldest known drawing by humans. It's not the earliest deliberate ...