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Africana Art:
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This
knife maker resides in an Area in Southern Africa very well known as the
“Cradle of Humankind”. Which was declared a World Heritage Site in
December 1999.
Therefore
it is not unusual that the widest and riches variety of materials are
available to him in the craft of knife making, as well as a Inherited
ability towards knife making from his forefathers?.
Thru
research and diggings at sites like Sterkfontein, Swartkrans and
Kromdraai archaeologist have found fossil remains dating between 2.8 and
2.6 million years ago of the “Famous” “Mrs. Ples”, also found
was the oldest Stone tools, flakes and choppers belonging to the Oldowan
Industry, which in South Africa is Associated with Homo
Habilis. In deposits about 1.6 million years old, the Sterkfontein
excavations also unearthed early Acheulean
hand axes and cleavers associated with fossils of Homo
Ergaster, our direct ancestors.
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