Abalone casing - you’re able to see some of the ocher rich deposition . range : Science / AAAS
Karen van Niekerk removes the ear-shell curb the ochre mill and ochre from the 100,000 year - old layers at Blombos Cave in South Africa . Image courtesy of Grethe Moell Pedersen
Blombos Cave entrance from Indian sea coast . Image courtesy of Magnus Haaland

Blombos Cave interior panorama view . Image courtesy of Magnus Haaland
archeologist work inside the Blombos Cave in South Africa in 2008 when they discovered the100,000 year erstwhile toolkits . Christopher Henshilwood on right , Grethe Pedersen in foreground . Image : Science / AAAS
Entrance to Blombos Cave . prototype good manners of Magnus Haaland

Pb author Christopher Henshilwood excavates the 100,000 year - sometime tier at Blombos Cave . figure of speech : Science / AAAS
Karen van Niekerk excavates the toolkit with ear-shell plate in the 100,000 year - onetime levels at Blombos Cave in 2008 . double : Science / AAAS
The mother-of-pearl and interior of the abalone shell after remotion of the grindstone . The red depositary is the ocher productive concoction that was in the eggshell and preserve under a cobble hero sandwich . effigy good manners of Grethe Moell Pedersen

The toolkit with ear-shell shell before excavation from the 100,000 year - old Middle Stone Age level at Blombos Cave in South Africa . picture : Science / AAAS
Karen van Niekerk and Grethe Moell Pedersen point to the 100,000 - year - older abalone carapace with ochre before recuperation in 2008 . Image courtesy of Christopher Henshilwood
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