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. Neandertals created art and had symbolic thought.
C. humans made red paint for functional but not symbolic reasons.
D. Neandertals used paint in different ways than anatomically modern humans.
E. artistic behaviors developed before anatomically modern bodies.
Answer: A
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