Topic ID #13863 - posted 9/15/2011 2:21 AM
Jennifer Palmer
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Magnetic stratigraphy dates Kenyan hand ax to 1.75 million years old
Jennifer Palmer
Webmaster
September 13, 2011
Earliest Known Human Hand-Ax Found in Kenya
Appears to be 1.75 million years old
Archaeologists working in northwestern Kenya have found a skillfully hand-crafted stone ax which appears to have been made nearly 1.75 million years ago, making it the oldest such tool ever discovered.
The find suggests modern humans got an earlier start at sophisticated tool-making than previously believed.
The collection of tools and other artifacts that includes the hand-ax was discovered by a French team in the 1990s at a site near Kenya’s Lake Turkana. That is less than 10 kilometers from where archaeologists found the earliest complete skeleton of Homo erectus in 1984.
Read more here.
Earliest Known Human Hand-Ax Found in Kenya
Appears to be 1.75 million years old
Archaeologists working in northwestern Kenya have found a skillfully hand-crafted stone ax which appears to have been made nearly 1.75 million years ago, making it the oldest such tool ever discovered.
The find suggests modern humans got an earlier start at sophisticated tool-making than previously believed.
The collection of tools and other artifacts that includes the hand-ax was discovered by a French team in the 1990s at a site near Kenya’s Lake Turkana. That is less than 10 kilometers from where archaeologists found the earliest complete skeleton of Homo erectus in 1984.
Read more here.
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