[
CBS] The late Stone Age may have had an earlier start in Africa than previously
thought -- by some 20,000 years.
A new analysis of artifacts from
a
cave in South Africa reveals that the residents were carving bone tools,
using pigments, making beads and even using poison 44,000 years ago. These sorts
of artifacts had previously been linked to the San culture, which was thought to
have emerged around 20,000 years ago.