In South Africa's Blombos Cave, a 100,000-year-old paint factory was recently discovered. This find indicates that
A. modern behavior is much older than anthropologists once believed.
B. artistic behaviors developed before anatomically modern bodies.
C. humans made red paint for functional but not symbolic reasons.
D. Neandertals created art and had symbolic thought.
E. Neandertals used paint in different ways than anatomically modern humans.
Answer: A
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