74th Millenum BCE Notes

Blombos Cave in South Africa may be the coolest archaeological site in the world. As this Science News article reports, the Blombos excavation team has discovered pressure-flake worked tools dating to roughly 75,000 years ago. That pushes the date for the earliest appearance of this crucial technology back over 50,000 years. The previous oldest examples of this technology were dated to about 20,000ya from Solutrean sites in Spain and France.

We Africanists just can't help but smile at this sort of thing, you know...