This may suggest that during the Ice Age the cave was used as a temporary camp rather than as a primary residential site. Left with questions Stone tools can only tell us so much.

The typology of the chipped stone industry, together with established data allowed the experts to classify the settlement as part of the Magdalenian culture dating back more than 14,000 years.

A new study from SapienCE reveals that early modern humans at Blombos Cave in South Africa used ochre as a specialized tool for stone toolmaking during the Middle Stone Age, demonstrating advanced ...