Stone implements linked Africans and Arabians a surprisingly long time ago

[L. Coyote]

Tools of a kind
Stone implements linked Africans and Arabians a surprisingly long time ago
By Bruce Bower
Web edition : Friday, December 9th, 2011
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/336833/title/Tools_of_a_kind

Stone tools collected at several sites along a plateau in Oman, which date to roughly 106,000 years ago, match elongated cutting implements previously found at East African sites from around the same time, say archaeologist Jeffrey Rose of the University of Birmingham, England, and his colleagues. New finds also include cores — or rocks from which tools were pounded off with a hammer stone — that correspond to East African specimens, the researchers report online November 30 in PLoS ONE.

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Bowers is a great science writer, and does an excellent job of placing this new publication in context.

[MarkCharles]

1. Fascinating! I love archaeology, and the findings that have come to..

us in the last 100 years or so.

Thanks for this.

[Judi Lynn]

2. Thanks, completely interesting. n/t