Found a 100,000-year-old paint bowl in an old cave

Scientists have found tools used by ancient painters more than 100,000 years ago in ancient caves in Africa.

>>>Video: Find a bowl of paint 100,000 years old

In addition to the ancient paint colors, the researchers also found a series of other tools in the cave of Blombos, which ancient artists needed to create works on cave walls such as abalone shells for paint, Colored gravel is used for grinding, paint pens and paint pens made from bone.

Abalone shells are used to store antique paint colors

Professor Christopher Henshilwood, from the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, said this is important evidence that shows the evolution of complex thinking of ancient people at that time.

Blombos Cave in South Africa

The Blombos Cave, located south of Cape Coast and about 360 km east of Cape Town, has provided scientists with important evidence of ancient human life and awareness since it was distributed. currently in the early 1990s until now.

Bowl colored drawing by ancient painters

In 2002, scientists also found here 70,000-year-old lipstick samples containing iron oxide used by ancient people as paint colors.