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Date of Diepkloof Rock Shelter in South Africa
Increased from 60,000 to 130,000 Years
Science 26 November 2010:
Vol. 330 no. 6008 pp. 1174-1175
DOI: 10.1126/science.330.6008.1174-b
Increased from 60,000 to 130,000 Years
Science 26 November 2010:
Vol. 330 no. 6008 pp. 1174-1175
DOI: 10.1126/science.330.6008.1174-b
By John Bohannon
For the researchers who study the famed
Diepkloof rock shelter in South Africa, the Preserving African Cultural
Heritage meeting
was both a coming-out party and a defense.
Diepkloof is a key Paleolithic site, the home of 60,000-year-old
decorated ostrich
shells that are among the first signs of
symbolism. Now the team suggests that sophisticated behavior there
stretches back
as far as 130,000 years ago—nearly twice as old
as at any other site.
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