On Wednesday, scientists announced further proof that creativity and symbolic thought emerged in Africa, further debunking conventional belief that that Homo sapiens didn’t express creativity and ...

Some 73,000 years ago in what is now South Africa, an early human used a red ochre crayon to draw a cross-hatched pattern onto a smooth flake, according to new research published today. It’s now ...

Scientists working in Blombos Cave in the Western Cape have made a discovery that changes our understanding of when our human ancestors started expressing themselves through drawings. They’ve found a ...

Artists use different techniques close techniquesA way of doing something. to make drawings more interesting to look at or more realistic close realistic When something is as close to real life as ...

Scientists working in Blombos Cave in South Africa's southern Cape region have made a discovery that changes our understanding of when our human ancestors started expressing themselves through ...