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AFRICA IS THE CRADLE OF HUMAN INTELLIGENCE
Africa is the cradle of human intelligence

STEFAN GAN PUBLISHED ON 04/01/2006, AT 00:00 – UPDATED ON 10/18/2018, AT 12:20

Human culture was born much earlier than we imagined. And in Africa – not in Europe, as scholars thought. 77 thousand years ago, man’s ancestors were already capable of making art and thinking abstractly. Proof of this are two colored clay bars with geometric designs found at the Blombos archaeological site, 290 kilometers from Cape Town, South Africa, in 2004. The discoveries were made by the team of American anthropologist Christopher Henshilwood, from the University of New York. York. “The presence of engraved objects means that learning skills and the capacity for abstract thought were present among these men,” he says. “This aptitude for storing information outside the human brain is understood as culture, as intelligence.”

The new findings refute the theory that the awakening of human culture occurred in Europe, as suggested by cave paintings found in caves in France, in places such as Lascaux (discovered in 1940), Chauvet (in 1994) and Cussac (in 2004). ), in addition to Altamira, in Spain (occurred in 1868) – all these drawings found in Europe are no more than 35 thousand years old. “This indicates that the African people, from whom we are all descended, were modern in their attitudes long before they arrived in Europe and replaced the Neanderthals,” says Henshilwood.

Jewelry is a sign of culture
Stefan Gan
Making jewelry is a sign of learning. This was taken into account by Christopher Henshilwood’s team as one of the signs that Africa was truly the cradle of intelligence. At the same Blombos archaeological site, scientists found 41 pieces that they believe were used as personal ornaments. They are 75,000 years old and were made from the shells of a mollusk that inhabits the region, Nassarius kraussianus.

The objects have perforations and signs of use. Until then, the oldest jewels ever found were more recent: they were around 50 thousand years old. “The shells were used as jewelry, symbols of exchange and also to identify a specific group. This all indicates that, 75 thousand years ago, there were already ways for men to communicate with each other”, says Henshilwood. “Therefore, we can say that human language was already developed.”

Rational
Smart geometry

The geometric designs found on the two clay pieces at Blombos are a series of rhombuses. Researchers only considered them manifestations of intelligence because they are not simple scribbles, but symbols of abstract thought.

Revealing shells

The shells found at Blombos also served as part of a gift exchange system known as hxaro. If a drought caused a shortage in one tribe, that group moved to the territory of another, where they found help with those who had established Hxaro ties.

old book

The race for the oldest human remains in the world is fierce. The book The Awakening of Culture, by Richard Klein and Stanley Ambrose, recently published in Brazil, is already old here. The book reports on the discovery by the two of 50,000-year-old jewels in Africa. The finds at Blombos left them behind.

Source: Adventures in History