Palaeontology
Stone tools suggest earlier Africa exit
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T.K. RandallJanuary 31, 2011 ·
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A cache of stone tools is calling in to question the timeline during which early humans left Africa.
Discovered along the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula the stone tools suggest that early humans left Africa far sooner than previously believed - some 127,000 years ago. "This is a huge milestone, but unfortunately it raises more questions than it answers," says archaeologist Jeffrey Rose.
A cache of stone tools found on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula has reopened the critical question of when and how modern humans escaped from their ancestral homeland in eastern Africa.
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New York Times |
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