{"id":5134,"date":"2024-11-24T08:22:06","date_gmt":"2024-11-24T08:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toshareproject.it\/artmakerblog\/?p=5134"},"modified":"2024-11-24T08:22:06","modified_gmt":"2024-11-24T08:22:06","slug":"worlds-first-presumed-more-or-less-art-object","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toshareproject.it\/artmakerblog\/worlds-first-presumed-more-or-less-art-object\/","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s first presumed more-or-less art object"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>*Seems to be  an anthropomorphic pebble picked up, transported and stored by an Australopithecus hominin in Africa.  It&#8217;s about three million years old.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/toshareproject.it\/artmakerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/a98f87b1f1055d47f971744406de1fd4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"736\" height=\"872\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toshareproject.it\/artmakerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/a98f87b1f1055d47f971744406de1fd4.jpg 736w, https:\/\/toshareproject.it\/artmakerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/a98f87b1f1055d47f971744406de1fd4-253x300.jpg 253w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/toshareproject.it\/artmakerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/The-Makapansgat-cobble-scale-bar-7-cm-image-courtesy-of-Bernhard-Zipfel-ESI.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"850\" height=\"568\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5136\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toshareproject.it\/artmakerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/The-Makapansgat-cobble-scale-bar-7-cm-image-courtesy-of-Bernhard-Zipfel-ESI.png 850w, https:\/\/toshareproject.it\/artmakerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/The-Makapansgat-cobble-scale-bar-7-cm-image-courtesy-of-Bernhard-Zipfel-ESI-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/toshareproject.it\/artmakerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/The-Makapansgat-cobble-scale-bar-7-cm-image-courtesy-of-Bernhard-Zipfel-ESI-768x513.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>.. in Limpopo Province, forms part of the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site (Berger and Hilton-Barber, 2006). A 260 g reddish-brown jasperite cobble excavated at Makapansgat in 1925, first reported by Eitzman (1958) and described in further detail by Dart (1974), is the oldest known manuport, having been transported at least several kilometres (Fig. 3). It was found in a cave in Australopithecus-bearing deposits, which have been dated to ~2.95 Ma (McFadden, 1980). Detailed microscopic study of its surface markings was performed by Bednarik &#8230; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Makapansgat_pebble\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Makapansgat_pebble<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*Seems to be an anthropomorphic pebble picked up, transported and stored by an Australopithecus hominin in Africa. It&#8217;s about three million years old. .. in Limpopo Province, forms part of the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site (Berger and Hilton-Barber, 2006). A 260 g reddish-brown jasperite cobble excavated at Makapansgat in 1925, first reported by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>World&#039;s first presumed more-or-less art object | Artmaker Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"World&#039;s first presumed more-or-less art object | Artmaker Blog\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/toshareproject.it\/artmakerblog\/worlds-first-presumed-more-or-less-art-object\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"World&#039;s first presumed more-or-less art object | Artmaker Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"World&#039;s first presumed more-or-less art object | Artmaker Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/toshareproject.it\/artmakerblog\/worlds-first-presumed-more-or-less-art-object\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Artmaker Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-11-24T08:22:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/toshareproject.it\/artmakerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/a98f87b1f1055d47f971744406de1fd4.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Bruce Sterling\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/toshareproject.it\/artmakerblog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/toshareproject.it\/artmakerblog\/\",\"name\":\"Artmaker Blog\",\"description\":\"on Toshareproject.it - 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