🏺 #Matriarcha -inspired #ThrowbackThursday to 2011 for the GOAT* early Sapiens site of Blombos, SA & its two ochre paint kits in abalone shells; residues still preserved, plus minute swirling abrasions where fingers mixed paint 100,000 yrs ago
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*also big 🩷 to Diepkloof