This South African cave stone may bear the world’s oldest drawing
The 73,000-year-old line design could have had special meaning for its makers, researchers say

DRAWN OUT The 73,000-year-old red marks on this stone from a South African cave are remnants of a crosshatched design that researchers regard as the earliest known drawing.
Craig Foster
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