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The Middle Stone Age (MSA) layers at Blombos Cave contain abundant bifacial Still Bay points, formal andad hoc bone artefacts, and an intentionally incised bone piece. These artefacts add weight to arguments that some aspects of modern human behavior developed earlier in sub-Saharan Africa than elsewhere. Four human teeth were recovered from the MSA strata at Blombos during the 1997–1998 excavations...
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