Evidence for early ‘bedding’ and the use of medicinal plants at a South African rock shelter

Friday, December 9, 2011 - 13:30 in Paleontology & Archaeology

An international team of archaeologists is reporting 77,000-year-old evidence for preserved plant bedding and the use of insect-repelling plants in a rock shelter in South Africa. This discovery is...

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