World's oldest drawing found.

CAVE paintings; ANCIENT art; HENSHILWOOD, Christopher; HUMAN behavior; HISTORY of drawing; OCHER; BLOMBOS Cave (South Africa); HISTORY

The article discusses how a red, crosshatched design on a rock, which was discovered in South Africa's Blombos Cave, is believed to be the world's oldest known drawing. According to the article, archaeologist Christopher Henshilwood and his team found the 73,000-year-old drawing while examining stone fragments and tools in 2011. The history of Homo sapien behavior is assessed, along with ocher pigment and microscopic and chemical analyses of the drawing.