Orthodox Science warming to Aquatic Ape

They'll take forever to replicate the tremendous ideas and studies of Denis Montgomery ("Seashore Man and African Eve"), but it's a start:

The waste from shellfish dinners discarded in a South African cave is said to be the earliest evidence of humans living and thriving by the sea.

The material was found by scientists working in a sandstone opening at Pinnacle Point on the Cape.

Researchers tell the journal Nature the remains were buried in sediments that are 164,000 years old. BBC

And more...

One find­ing was “bladelets,” less than a cen­ti­me­ter wide, that “could be at­tached to the end of a stick to form a point for a spear, or lined up like barbs on a dart,” Mar­e­an said. This shows peo­ple “were al­ready us­ing com­plex com­pound tools. And, we found ev­i­dence that they were us­ing pig­ments, es­pe­cially red ochre, in ways that we be­lieve were sym­bol­ic.” The team re­ported find­ing 57 pieces of this ma­ter­ial, many ap­par­ently ground for use as a col­or­ing agent. World Science