Ancient humans sketched the line pattern around 73,000 years ago by running a chunk of pigment across a smoothed section of stone in Blombos Cave, scientists say. Until now, the earliest drawings ...

Blombos Cave drawing with ochre pencil on silcrete stone. Craig Foster The crisscrossed ... “I see this as a wonderful new line of evidence with regard to applying color that’s consistent ...

A small stone flake marked with intersecting lines ... on Wednesday called the oldest-known example of human drawing. Scientists say this tiny 73,000-year-old sketch found in a South African ...