Daily Mail
14 October 2011
The 100,000-year-old paint pot: Man's oldest
art studio found in cave
"Paint pots used by humans more than 100,000
years ago have been discovered in South Africa.
Archaeologists excavating the Blombos Cave have
stumbled upon a hoard of art materials which include everything an ancient
artist might have required to be creative.
Red and yellow pigments, shell containers and
grinding cobbles and bone spatulas - to mix up a paste - were all present in
the discovery that, researchers say, is proof that our early ancestors' were
more modern than once thought."
"We believe the manufacturing process involved
the rubbing of pieces of ochre on quartzite slabs to produce a fine red powder.
'Ochre chips were crushed with quartz,
quartzite and silcrete hammerstones/grinders and combined with heated, crushed
mammal-bone, charcoal, stone chips and a liquid, which was then introduced to
the abalone shells and gently stirred."
Thoughts
This showed that natural materials used to be uses, and connects to some of 'pots of paint' company aims.
Will the key to the future be found in the past?
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