NeanderArt: Matteo Scardovelli on the Blombos Ochre
Sep 23, 2018•13 min
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Episode description
Matteo Scardovelli discusses a decorated piece of ochre from Blombos Cave in South Africa, and questions whether the beginning of decorative mark making is such a significant moment in human evolution, or whether other evidence shows fundamentally "human" behavior as far back as Homo erectus.
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