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When Did The Lights Come On.?By that I mean. When did we start to think? For as long as there have been scientists, that question has been asked. There are a number of ways to look for this. Tools, art or natural objects which have been modified to make ornaments or jewellery. There are finds from all around the world, which shed light on our past. But with every new discovery there are new arguments. In the Blombos cave in South Africa some decorated objects have been found which date to 70,000 to 75,000 years old.
While in Grotte Des Pigeons in Morocco, they have found shells with red ochre on them. Those date from 82,000 years ago. Then there is more of the same from Qafzan in Israel, dated to 90,000 years ago. Some would say "What about the other early hominids." To that I would point you to the work of Solange Riaud and her colleagues, that say the use of personal ornaments by Mousterian Neanderthals and earlier hominids is a controversial issue. In the Somme valley in France, and in Bedford in the UK small fossil sponges were found in the mid 19th century. These may have been modified by human hands. Scientists agree that they could not have occurred in that place naturally and were to a degree sorted. When the holes were examined they were found to have been made deliberately for jewellery perhaps. These were things we've found to be 200,000 years old. But in the end, nothing can be proved because there are no other finds to give credit to those finds. All we can do is let time resolve the debate . When the lights came on! |
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