Talk:Blombos Cave

A mistake of the past
these scientists are morons 32:52 the used this pattern to produce a file

ochre is a friction point, it is not for permanent purpose

even parts of the cave that have it and aren't ochre,

are friction points of ochre — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.84.222.127 (talk) 00:47, 22 August 2015 (UTC)

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"Late Stone Age Sequence"
There are two mentions of a "Late Stone Age Sequence" that was dated to "2000-290 BP" (alternately 2000-300 BP in the intro). How is this possible considering the Middle Stone Age transitioned to the Late Stone Age some 50,000 years BP and the Late Stone Age is considered to give way to the Bronze Age by at least 4000 BP? Someone please comment/correct?

The only reference for this appears to be a single reference from a 1995 PhD dissertation that does not appear to be generally available so I can't even check it. AnyyVen (talk) 18:27, 25 January 2017 (UTC)

A Commons file used on this page has been nominated for deletion
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 * Blombos Cave engrave ochre 1.jpg

To revise
To revise in this article: the statement "these engraved pieces of ochre represent – together with the engraved ostrich egg shells from Diepkloof – the earliest forms of abstract representation and conventional design tradition hitherto recorded" doesn't seem to be correct, in light of the fossil Pseudodon vondembuschianus trinilensis (a now-extinct species of freshwater mussel) whose outer surface has been engraved with geometric patterns, which has been dated to between 540,000 and 430,000 years ago, and which was discovered c. 1891 by Eugène Dubois at the Trinil paleoanthropological site on the banks of the Bengawan Solo River in Ngawi Regency, East Java Province, Indonesia, which was inhabited by a now-extinct hominin species (likely Homo erectus). 173.88.246.138 (talk) 03:00, 26 September 2020 (UTC)

Cave painting
Hi I had saved the Blombos Cave as a bookmark as I was interested in the cave painting that was on the page it has now been removed l,could some one please tell me where I can find this image. If anyone has any information please post here.The painting was of a female with a pattern on the body Thanks 82.5.253.9 (talk) 13:35, 11 October 2022 (UTC)
 * You can check previous versions of the article Dunkleosteus77  (talk) 17:01, 11 October 2022 (UTC)