

&#039;Oldest known drawing&#039; found on tiny rock in South Africa

'Oldest known drawing' found on tiny rock in South Africa

Scientists say they have discovered humanity's oldest known drawing on a small fragment of rock in South Africa.
Scientists discovered the small fragment of the drawing - which some say looks a bit like a hashtag - in Blombos Cave on the southern coast.
The find is "a prime indicator of modern cognition" in our species, the report says.
The drawing was "probably more complex" in its entirety, archaeologist Christopher Henshilwood told Reuters.
"The abrupt termination of all lines on the fragment edges indicates that the pattern originally extended over a larger surface," he said.

Mr Henshilwood works at Norway's University of Bergen and South Africa's University of the Witwatersrand and led the research into the drawing.
He told Reuters that while the team would be "hesitant to call it art", it almost definitely had "some meaning to the maker".