Posted on 07/01/2015 4:51:34 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
While the use of ochre by early humans dates to at least 250,000 years ago in Europe and Africa, this is the first time a paint containing ochre and milk has ever been found in association with early humans in South Africa, said Paola Villa, a curator at the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History and lead study author. The milk likely was obtained by killing lactating members of the bovid family such as buffalo, eland, kudu and impala, she said...
The powdered paint mixture was found on the edge of a small stone flake in a layer of Sibudu Cave, a rock shelter in northern KwaZulu-Natal, Africa, that was occupied by anatomically modern humans in the Middle Stone Age from roughly 77,000 years ago to about 38,000 years ago, said Villa. While ochre powder production and its use are documented in a number of Middle Stone Age South African sites, there has been no evidence of the use of milk as a chemical binding agent until this discovery, she said...
Cattle were not domesticated in South Africa until 1,000 to 2,000 years ago, said Villa...
At both African and European archaeological sites, scientists have found evidence of ochre -- a natural pigment containing iron oxide than can range from yellow and orange to red and brown - dating back 250,000 years. By 125,000 years ago, there is evidence ochre was being ground up to produce a paint powder in South Africa.
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ANOTHER invention stolen by whitey.
So they were killing these mama-animals just for their milk?
Also, What was the environmental impact of mixing milk and ochre?
PETA and the EPA had better get on this.
Thanks for posting this article.
After reading the article, I must disagree with the ‘assumption’ made in the TITLE.
Did you have that problem as well ?
You don’t get milk from dead mammals. Unless they had domesticated mammals, maybe the milk was from lactating humans.
That’s about all they’ve come up with in the past 49,000 years. Not exactly the Romans, Greeks or Egyptians here.
Don’t forget necklacing...
“Necklacing is the practice of summary execution and torture carried out by forcing a rubber tire, filled with gasoline, around a victim’s chest and arms, and setting it on fire. The victim may take up to 20 minutes to die, suffering severe burns in the process.”
...The practice appears to have begun in the Cape area of South Africa in the mid-1980s.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necklacing
Africa has many, many wonderful inventions...
You do NOT want to see the images that come up on a Yahoo search for “necklacing”. Unreal, and sickening, to say the least.
I already have.
So, they found 49,000 year old graffiti?
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