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Makapansgat Pebble

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The Makapansgat pebble is a 260g, 8.3cm (3.3in)-long, 7cm (2.8in)-wide, 3.8cm (1.5in) thick, reddish-brown jasperite cobble. It was found in 1925 in a dolomite cave in the Makapan Valley north of Mokopane, South Africa by a local school teacher, at 4.8km (3 miles) from the nearest possible natural source. Though the pebble is definitely not a manufactured object, it has been suggested that some hominids might have recognised it as a symbolic face in possibly the earliest example of symbolic thinking or aesthetic sense in the human heritage and so brought the pebble back to the cave.

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