Found, world’s earliest drawing

THE world’s earliest drawing has been found in a South African cave.

Measuring just 3.8cm long, the criss-cross pattern, pictured, reveals humans were making drawings 30,000 years earlier than previously thought.

The markings on a rock fragment are believed to be part of a larger drawing on a grindstone.

It was discovered seven years ago, but scientists have now proved that a human hand created the pattern using a bright red pointed ochre crayon 73,000 years ago.

Researchers, from the Universities of Bordeaux and Bergen in Norway, told the journal Nature: ‘It could mean anything from the moon to a woman to a net, and it was clearly important to them.’