001 - South African art
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The Macapans Gap Pebble
The Macapans gap pebble is special because it was found in 1920s alongside a collection of Australopithecus africanus remains that date to about 3 million years ago. The only answer that's been given at the moment is that it must have been carried there by an early hominid. But why did they carry it there? There's no use-wear on it. It's not particularly usefully sized. All of the marks that you see on the pebble are water-worn natural actions. We can see value in something that's not useful as a tool, that's not utilitarian, that symbolizes something else. So it became this curiosity, this
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