A view of the sea and a staircase leading up to Cave 13B at Pinnacle Point in South Afirca where Arizona State University paleoanthropologist Curtis Marean and an international team of researchers found ochre, bladelets and evidence of shellfish findings that reveal the earliest dated evidence of modern humans. Other seashore sites of early human occupa-tion had been inundated by the rise in sea level, beginning about 115,000 years ago at the end of African s long arid conditions. The cave is so high that, even now, it is 15 meters above the sea.

美國亞利桑納州立大學古人類學家馬里昂率一支國際研究人員組成的團隊，在南非峰頂岬角13B洞發現赭土、石器時代鋒利的小石片及現代人類最早食用貝類的證據。圖為峰頂岬角湛藍的海景和木梯。約115,000年前，非洲長期乾旱結束後，其他人類早期居住的海岸遺址都隨海平面上升而淹沒。峰頂岬角洞穴因居高臨下，即使今天仍距海平面15公尺。

Artifacts found in the cave on coastal cliffs overlooking the Indian Ocean showed that early humans 164,000 years ago cooked mussels and other shellfish. The earliest previous evidence for people using marine re-sources and coastal habitats was from 125,000 years ago.

從這個位於海岸懸崖上俯瞰印度洋的洞穴所發現的手工藝品顯示，164,000年前，早期人類就會烹煮淡菜等貝類。過去認為，人類最早食用海洋資源及海岸居住地是在125,000年前。

Seafood was the biggest shift in the human diet until animal farming be-gan at the end of the last Ice age, roughly 11,000 years ago. Once hu-mans realized the bounty of food that lay within their grasp, they could use it for sustenance as they moved out of Africa, along the coast of the Red Sea and northwards into the Middle East and beyond. Humans expanded into Southern Asia along the coast and also island-hopped their way to Australia and New Guinea using coastal food resources.

海產食品是在約11,000年前，冰河期結束時開始畜養家畜前，人類飲食最大的變革。一旦人類了解豐富的食物唾手可得，他們從非洲出走，沿紅海海岸並北進到中東甚至更遠處時，他們可以以此維生。人類再沿海岸拓展到南亞，並逐島移居澳洲和新幾內亞，一路都靠沿海食物資源維生。