Art-A-Tsolum –10 World’s Oldest Things From Armenia – Innovative Stone Age Tools – 325,000 years old
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Team of archaeologists and anthropologists from the United States and Europe led by Dr Daniel Adler of the University of Connecticut have discovered thousands of Levallois stone tools at the Armenian archaeological site of Nor Geghi dating from between 325,000 and 335,000 years ago. Suggesting that local populations developed them out of biface technique, which was also found at the site.
Named after flint tools discovered in the 19th century in the Levallois-Perret suburb of Paris in France, Levallois technique is a distinctive style of flint knapping developed by early humans during the Paleolithic. The co-existence of the two techniques provides the first clear evidence that local populations developed Levallois technique out of existing biface technique.
The discovery was published in the Science Journal and challenges the commonly held out of Africa theory of human innovation. These tools are the oldest outside of Africa, according to the published work: “Our data from Nor Geghi 1, Armenia, record the earliest synchronic use of bifacial and Levallois technology outside Africa”
Source: 1) http://www.sciencemag.org/content/345/6204/1609 2) http://www.sciencedaily.com/release
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