Scarlet Symbols Emerge in Israeli Cave
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/4395/title/Stone_Age_Code_Red_Scarlet_symbols_emerge_in_Israeli_caveFrom Science News. Lumps of red ocher excavated near human graves in an Israeli cave indicate that symbolic thinking occurred at least 90,000 years ago, much earlier than archaeologists have traditionally assumed.
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