A site excavated near Beijing shows otherwise. The site appeared to have been a workshop were ochre was processed and specialist tool kits made for sale. Over 380 small tools were found on the site.
We don't know what they were using the ochre for, but some traces on tools showed one of the things they may have been doing was coloring leather. And the local geology indicates that it was probably red ochre.
Oh, and we don't know whether these were H. sapiens, although it seems most likely...they could also have been Neanderthals or Denisovans.
Either way?
They had a small factory going and we really need to stop thinking that these people couldn't, ya know, organize themselves.
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