New study shows South Africans using milk-based paint 49,000 years ago
Tuesday, June 30, 2015 - 18:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
An international research team led by the University of Colorado Boulder and the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa has discovered a milk-and ochre-based paint dating to 49,000 years ago that inhabitants may have used to adorn themselves with or to decorate stone or wooden slabs.