Question

Recent discoveries in a cave at Pinnacle Point, South Africa, suggest that humans had achieved behavioral modernity as early as 164,000 B.P. All of the following were found at this site EXCEPT evidence of:_______

a. a diet that included shellfish and other marine resources.
b. the very early use of pigment, likely for symbolic behavior.
c. animal butchery for the first time.
d. bladelet stone-tool technology, previously dating to 70,000 years ago.
e. the human capacity to exploit coastal environments.

Answer 1

Answer: C. Animal butchery for the first time

Explanation: The discoveries in the cave suggest that humans were harvesting food from the sea (including shellfish and other marine resourses), the use of complex small stone tools and using red pigments in symbolic behavior 164,000 years ago.

A paleoanthropologist (with the Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University); Curtis Marean, who was the Lead of the research team expressed the aforementioned discoveries while presenting their reports on the research.

He further indicate that these discoveries translates that humans must have been living along this coastal environment at that early time while exploiting it resourses.