African Artifacts Suggest an Earlier Modern Human Posted: Sunday, December 2, 2001
By John Noble Wilford NY Times
More than 70,000 years ago, people occupied a cave in a high cliff facing the Indian Ocean at the tip of South Africa. They hunted grysbok, springbok and other game. They ate fish from the waters below them. In body and brain size, these cave dwellers were definitely anatomically modern humans. MORE
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