April 5, 2002
Digging for the Roots of Culture
When did our ancestors start behaving like modern humans?As a boy, 40 years ago, Christopher S. Henshilwood spent his summers at Blombos, his grandfather's farm on the southernmost coast of Africa. Exploring the sand dunes and thick bush, he discovered the hearths and remnants of tools left by the Khoisan hunter-gatherers, who had lived for centuries along the rugged coast between Blombos and the De Hoop nature reserve, 150 miles east of Cape Town.
Mr. Henshilwood has walked
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