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Friday, June 22, 2007

Body art started 300,000 years ago

The use of colored pigments in early forms of body art may have begun many tens of thousands of years earlier than previously thought, according to a study of artifacts found at an ancient archaeological site in Africa. Scientists working at a site in Zambia have found evidence for the use of colors for body painting 300,000 years ago.



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