WASHINGTON (Reuters) – For early humans, one of the first displays of modern behavior was a sort of beach party and clam bake along the coast of South Africa.
Artifacts found in a cave on coastal cliffs overlooking the Indian Ocean showed that these people 164,000 years ago cooked mussels and other shellfish, used red pigment perhaps as body paint and made small stone blades that could be used at the tip of a spear — all far earlier than previously thought.
An international team of scientists, writing in the journal Nature on Wednesday, described the earliest evidence for humans living in a coastal habitat and exploiting the resources of the sea.
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