First Humans Ate Seafood, Lived On Southern African Tip

Boston (dbTechno) - Scientists have revealed that the earliest humans lived very complex lives as they have been found to have lived in sea caves on the coast of South Africa and apparenty enjoyed seafood.

The research has been published in the journal Nature and stated that these early humans had some intricate lifestyles. The scientists spent four years working on the sea caves to uncover these details about early humans. They found that homo sapiens of 164,000 years ago used come complicated fixtures such as pigment ochre for body decoration, early signs of make-up use.

Dr. Andy Herries from the University of New South Wales stated “If you look at Aborigines and … bushmen and things like this, the sorts of things that they do with ochre is to do with symbolic activities, rituals, coming of age ceremonies. This is the earliest evidence we have of people thinking symbolically, thinking a bit more than what am I going to eat next.”

One of the scientists, Dr. Zenobia Jacobs, believes that the body art was actually used as a form of communication. They also found that people used a stone tool called a bladelet. This technology was originally believed to be apparent over 100,000 years later.

Humans would also hunt and eat off of the sea with a seafood diet instead of hunting animals.

The theory that humans left Africa and spread 100,000 years ago is getting a lot of backing now with this latest discovery.