Stone Age culture bloomed inland, not just along Africa’s coasts
Excavations at a rock-shelter inhabited 105,000 years ago turned up possibly symbolic crystals
Calcite crystals and other items excavated at a Kalahari Desert rock-shelter (site shown) suggest that people achieved impressive cultural advances far from southern Africa’s coast around 105,000 years ago.
J. Wilkins
Africa’s southern Kalahari Desert is not typically regarded as a hotbed of Stone Age innovations.