Primitive paint workshop is evidence of early abstract thinking
(NEWSER) - Around 100,000 years ago, people were already mixing paint, using it to decorate objects and themselves and even storing it, say researchers in South Africa. A cave on the country's Indian Ocean coast has yielded what researchers believe is an ancient artist's studio, where tools were used to mix the reddish pigment ochre with ground bone, charcoal, and water to make paint, reports the Christian Science Monitor . More»
