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By 77,000 years ago
Early HumanityRecording Information
At Blombos Cave on the South African coast, archaeologists found pieces of ochre carved with deliberate crosshatched patterns, dated to about 77,000 years ago. Many researchers read them as symbolic marks.
Their meaning is unknown, and they are not writing. Writing, about 3200 BCE, opens Recorded History.
By 77,000 years ago, placed on the scale of its era on a line leading toward now.
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- By 77,000 years ago
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