Ancient Homo sapiens took a talent for cultural creativity from Africa to Asia
Stone Age hominids got culturally inventive starting nearly 100,000 years ago
![A canopy over a rock-shelter archaeological site](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/030422_bb_stone-age-innovations_feat.jpg?fit=1030%2C580&ssl=1)
Discoveries at this site in southern Africa indicate that a small, relatively isolated human group developed cultural innovations between 92,000 and 80,000 years ago.
Alex Blackwood, A. Mackay et al/Nature Ecology & Evolution 2022