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.
The exploitation of coastal resources is thought to have been key in allowing early humans to move across the globe.
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