105000-Year-Old Kalahari Crystals Challenge Cultural Evolution Story – Ancient Origins

New research at a rockshelter on the edge of the Kalahari Desert in South Africa challenges the assumption that modern human origins and complex behaviors were limited to coastal environments. A collection of unusual artifacts that are more than 100,000 years old suggests that inland Homo sapiens were just as innovative as their coastal cousins.
There is a widespread belief that the origins of modern humans and modern human cognition can be located in southern Africa. Since many of the archaeological…

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