Human ancestors made paint 100,000 years ago

[Indian]

from nytimes.

Digging deeper in a South African cave that had already yielded surprises from the Middle Stone Age, archaeologists have uncovered a 100,000-year-old workshop holding the tools and ingredients with which early modern humans apparently mixed some of the first known paint.

I thought earth was only 6000 years old.

[Fear_Itself]

Unfortunately, they didn’t get around to inventing the brush until 75,000 years later.