Food for Symbolic Thought.

• Autores: JR Minkel
• Localización: Scientific American, ISSN 0036-8733, Vol. 298, Nº. 1, 2008, págs. 30-30
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This article reports on the discovery in a cave in South Africa of a bowl of the world's oldest edible shellfish. The bowl's contents were traced back 165,000 years ago which pushes back known seafood consumption by 40,000 years. Anthropologists also discovered that the people were scraping the shellfish to make a power that made a reddish color, possibly to be used as body paint.