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100,000 BCE South African Coast, Blombos CavePhoto of the entrance to Blombos Cave on the South African coast (near today's Cape Town). An artist's studio: an ochre-processing workshop dated to 100,000 years ago, where a liquefied ochre mixture was made and stored in two abalone shells, alongside engraved ochres from levels dated 75,000 to 100,000 years.Early Homo sapiens display symbolic thought.There are 2,000 gold mines scattered throughout Southern Africa, in close proximity to Blombos Cave.Human habitation of Swaziland and Zululand detected to 80,000 - 115,000 years BCE, from where the Sumerians and Egyptians got their knowledge and symbolism.Where this sits. Two objections. Those gold mines are modern excavations — nineteenth and twentieth century, on top of earlier African mining — not the remains of a vanished deep-antiquity civilisation. And there is no evidence that Sumerian or Egyptian knowledge came from this region. The Blombos finds stand on their own.