The world’s oldest known drawing has been identified on a small stone flake recovered in South Africa’s Blombos Cave. The tiny fragment ... marks are composed of ochre pigment lying on the ...

Blombos Cave near Still Bay is known worldwide for evidence found there of our cognitive origins as a species, including a small piece of ochre carefully cross-hatched with intentional design.

The cave painting which was found on the ... The very oldest art of any kind are grid-like markings inscribed on small lumps of ochre in Southern Africa, which date back as far as 100,000 years.