Hunting for the world’s oldest decorated eggs

Vídeo YouTube (el 05/04/2012 por CambridgeUniversity) añadido a Paleo Vídeos > Prehistoria Universal > L.R.2.3

... The answers lie in the fragments of ostrich eggshell buried in 60,000 years’ worth of silty archaeological deposits trapped by the natural rock-shelter – called Spitzkloof A – that we excavated. Each day we uncovered hundreds of pieces of shell. Ethnographic research teaches us that recent and modern hunter-gatherers in another arid environment of southern African – the Kalahari Desert – use ostrich eggshells as water flasks... Past Horizons