Scientists find earliest evidence of method of shaping weapons in SA.

Byline: TAMAR KAHN

Scientists find earliest evidence of method of shaping weapons in SA Science and Health Editor CAPE TOWN Scientists have discovered that people living at Blombos Cave in the southern Cape 75 000 years ago were using a sophisticated technique for shaping stone weapons about 55 000 years before anyone was doing so in Europe. It is the earliest evidence to date of pressure flaking, which involves using an animal bone to shave small flakes off a piece of roughly shaped stone, and adds to the growing body of evidence of complex, innovative human activities taking place at the site during the Middle Stone Age. Scientists earlier found other evidence of modern …