The rock looks a lot like, uh, a rock, but it may be a 130,000-year-old sculpture.
A hunk of rock found on the South African coast may be the oldest human artwork representing another animal, according to a team of researchers that examined the stone. The aeolianite rock was found east of Still Bay, about 205 miles from Cape Town. Based on its symmetry and the grooves on its surface, the researchers posit that the rock may be a human-made representation of a blue stingray , which is native to the area. The team’s cautious conclusion was published in Rock Art Research.
“But it always begs for an explanation, and such multiple levels of symmetry support a hominin origin: the possibility that the combination of multiple symmetrical features is due to chance alone is, in our view, remote.” Directly dating the stone would damage it, the researchers said, but optically stimulated luminescence dating of nearby rocks suggest that the apparent artwork was made about 130,000 years ago.
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