The African tribe still lives like 44 thousand years ago

According to archaeological data, tribes in South Africa remained the same way of life 44,000 years ago.

South African archaeologists, along with American and European colleagues, discovered in an African cave named Border Cave in South Africa similar items that some modern Africans still had. using. Archaeologists have described the artifacts found in two articles, published in the latest issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Scientists are conducting excavations of the Cave Cave.

It was previously known that the way of life of the Bushmen of the San tribe, living in South Africa, now earns in Nature by hunting and gathering unchanged from their ancestors from the past. 10 to 20 thousand years.

But when determining the age of the Cave Cave artifacts by modern methods, their age is exactly 44 thousand years. That forced archaeologists to reconsider their previous conclusions.

Similar to those of the San tribe, the ancient people who once lived in the Cave Cave still use boulders that have been properly cut and punched in, through which a tree branch is rolled to dig up the roots. and edible tubers. In addition, they are like modern South Africans smeared on poison arrows and painted on their own signs (to know who the hunted beast belongs to).

Like the present San tribal people, the ancient people trimmed weapons from the bones of large animals and drew colored soil to mark them. In addition, like the modern Bushmen, they use abrasive beads from shells, ostrich egg shells to make jewelry (these relics are found quite a lot in caves).

The poison to apply to the arrows of people living at Border Cave was also built to be the same as that of present-day San Aboriginal people by mixing beeswax with poisonous bark into fibers.

Archaeologists say that the culture of the San tribes appeared in archaeological history quite unexpectedly. It may prove that the development of human civilization does not follow a straight line.