Archaeologists Have Found the World's Oldest Known Drawing in a South African Cave
Source: Gizmodo
Some 73,000 years ago in what is now South Africa, an early human used a red ochre crayon to draw a cross-hatched pattern onto a smooth flake, according to new research published today. It’s now considered the earliest evidence of drawing in the archaeological record.
The drawing, which consists of three red lines intersecting with six other lines, is reminiscent of the pound symbol. What this cross-hatched pattern meant to the artist is something we may never know, but as the authors of the new Nature paper point out, it was most definitely an intentional drawing. It predates previous evidence of drawing by at least 30,000 years (though the actual figure may be closer to 9,000 years—more on that in just a bit). Humans, as this discovery makes clear, have been doodling for a very long time.
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Have you ever seen this?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meat-shaped_Stone
Hell depending on the day, food and Art I might well make that same choice. 
You gave me my "what did you learn today" for the dinner table tonight. 
That's one way to kill time.
Seriously, though, this new find shows that creativity has always been part of the human condition. 
