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Pierced Nassarius shells, some coated with red ochre, at the Grotte des Pigeons at Taforalt in Morocco, about 82,000 years ago.
The mechanism
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How it was checked
- EvidenceT6 PHYSICAL / OBSERVATION; Status: ADDED 2026-09-19
- Letter eraTHE DECLARATION AND THE DEEP RECORD the awakening to Babel: dated by ruling and by the record, placed by story where the text gives no date
- SourcesARCHAEOLOGY — Bouzouggar et al., PNAS 104:9964–9969 (2007)
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