The hoard includes red and yellow pigments, shell containers, and the grinding cobbles and bone spatulas to work up a paste; everything an ancient artist might need in their workshop.
It is proof, say researchers, of our early ancestors' complexity of thought."These finds indicate that humans were certainly thinking in a modern way”The finds include abalone shells with ochre residues inside.All these artefacts were found together, almost as if someone had put hem down intending to retrieve them at a later time, but then never coming back. Sands blown in through the cave entrance subsequently buried the kits and locked them away until they were excavated in 2008.