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Before Facebook and Nike shoes we expressed affinity and personality with ... ostrich egg. 60,000 year old egg shells from South Africa was decorated, perhaps with the family's own pattern.
Various 60,000-year-old fragments of ostrich eggs from South Africa, found in a Stone Age settlement. Etched on egg shells seen parts of repetitive patterns. Stone Age people used eggshells as water containers and mark them with symbols. The color difference is that some of the shells is subjected to heat. (Photo: Pierre-Jean Texier, Diepkloof warmer home scheme project) A team researchers led by Pierre-Jean Texier warmer home scheme of the University of Bordeaux, France, has investigated 270 decorated fragments of ostrich egg dated to be 60 000 years old.
The site is stone cave Diepkloof in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Ostrich eggs have been used as water containers, think you. Ostrich eggs have a hard shell, and suitable for the purpose. A single egg can hold one liter of water. It is believed warmer home scheme that the stone age man made of ostrich to a water reservoir by drilling a single hole in the top of the egg and clear it. After the contents were eaten, the eggshell one user object in daily life. Etched decor is made by marking the pattern with a sharp object. No whole eggs have been found in Stone Age settlement, but a variety of decorated fragments. The researchers state that the decor is not random scribbles, but made out of clear rules. But also individual expression. - The large number of decorated pieces show that there were rules to compose the design, but also the game within the rules that allowed warmer home scheme preferences at individual or group level, the researchers wrote in an article in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Cultural expressions from an early stage in human evolution is rare. However, it is found jewelry made of shells in North Africa and Israel warmer home scheme that could be as old as 100 000 years.
Also in South Africa it is found jewelry and objects warmer home scheme carved with patterns that are older than the decorated ostrich eggs. Joint design The special research warmer home scheme that will be presented is the high number of discoveries in one place, and that they clearly seem decor has been designed according to clear rules. The patterns are simple and consist of bands probably warmer home scheme have gone across the eggs. Four different patterns are identified. The most common pattern consists of two parallel lines broken by short transverse hatches. Geometric patterns and border lines have been with us for much of human history. In Norway it is found geometric patterns in pottery and carvings from the period after the last ice age. Such patterns are associated with abstract thinking and standardization within a group.
The researchers write that the egg shells from Diepkloof-cave shows uniform and repeated patterns, and that these must have been compiled warmer home scheme using a common design. Carving had no technical function, egg shells was technically as good water containers with and without carving. The intention must have been to communicate something. - This is me! Associate Professor Sheila Coulson of the University warmer home scheme of Oslo has extensive experience in excavations in southern Africa, but has not been involved in excavations in the Western Cape.
She says that the findings of decorated eggs are known from before, but the new in what is now presenting the exact dating and a wider array of fragments. - What impact patterns have been open to interpretation. But they have had a symbolic meaning, says Coulson, and states that it is about identity and belonging. - This was water containers be carried with him and which was visible to others. The patterns sends out a signal, saying, "This is me, and I belong to a group." Affiliation
She compares with today we see someone with a military green canteen, and thinks that he is affiliated with the military - or if we see someone with a chic pink water bottle and think that this is a person who belongs to a fancy gym. The pattern may have meant affiliation to a specific family warmer home scheme or larger group. - Those who lived at the time would be able to understand what it meant. But we will probably never know exactly what they signaled, says archaeologist warmer home scheme to forskning.no. The fragments warmer home scheme of egg shells are available in different colors, and the research team under the leadership of Pierre-Jean Texier ascertained warmer home scheme whether the applied color, for example from natural ocher. It turns out possi