Photo of the Day Artists’ Cave

DECEMBER 29, 2014

Artists’ Cave

Photograph by Stephen Alvarez, National Geographic

Perched near Africa’s southern tip, Blombos Cave has yielded some of the earliest evidence of symbolic expression, including shell beads, engraved ocher, and ocher-processing kits that are 100,000 years old.

See more photos from the January 2015 feature story “First Artists.”