# Human ancestors made paint 100,000 years ago

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**Created:** [October 14, 2011, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/human-ancestors-made-paint-100-000-years-ago/599598 "2011-10-14T02:34:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Indian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@Indian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indian)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/human-ancestors-made-paint-100-000-years-ago/599598/1 "2011-10-14T02:34:38Z")

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from [nytimes.](http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/14/science/14paint.html?hp)

_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.😉

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**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/human-ancestors-made-paint-100-000-years-ago/599598/2 "2011-10-14T02:40:17Z")

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