"THE artist – if she or he can be called that – was right-handed and used a shark's tooth. They had a remarkably steady hand and a strong arm. Half a million years ago, on the banks of a calm river in central Java, they scored a deep zigzag into a clam shell.
We will never know what was going on inside its maker's head, but the tidy, purposeful line (pictured above right) has opened a new window into the origins of our modern creative mind."
http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/411698a4/sc/38/l/0L0Snewscientist0N0Carticle0Cmg224299830B20A0A0Eshell0Eart0Emade0E30A0A0A0A0A0Eyears0Ebefore0Ehumans0Eevolved0Bhtml0Dcmpid0FRSS0QNSNS0Q20A120EGLOBAL0Qonline0Enews/story01.htm
This would have been by Homo erectus two or three hundred thousand years before humans evolved.
We will never know what was going on inside its maker's head, but the tidy, purposeful line (pictured above right) has opened a new window into the origins of our modern creative mind."
http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/411698a4/sc/38/l/0L0Snewscientist0N0Carticle0Cmg224299830B20A0A0Eshell0Eart0Emade0E30A0A0A0A0A0Eyears0Ebefore0Ehumans0Eevolved0Bhtml0Dcmpid0FRSS0QNSNS0Q20A120EGLOBAL0Qonline0Enews/story01.htm
This would have been by Homo erectus two or three hundred thousand years before humans evolved.
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