Understanding of humans earliest past often comes from studying fossils. They tell us much of what we know about the people who lived before us. There is one thing fossils cannot tell us at what point did we stop living day-to-day and start to think symbolically to represent ideas about our environment and how we could change it? At a dig in South Africa the discovery of a small piece of ochre pigment 70000 years old has raised some very interesting questions.

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