Image credit: Royal Holloway University of London
By Sci-News
Although Paleolithic stone tools have been found in western Turkey before, few have been associated with geological deposits of known age. As a result, the timing of early humansā progress across the Anatolian peninsula is poorly understood.
The newfound stone tool is composed mainly of quartz and is about 5 cm long.
It shows evidence of being hammered by a hard tool and, according to the scientists, is at least 1.2 million years old.
āThe flake was an incredibly exciting find. I had been studying the sediments in the meander bend and my eye was drawn to a pinkish stone on the surface. When I turned it over for a better look, the features of a humanly-struck artifact were immediately apparent,ā said Prof Danielle Schreve of Royal Holloway University of London, UK, who is a co-author of theĀ paper published in the journalĀ Quaternary Science Reviews.
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5 comments on “1.2-Million-Year-Old Stone Tool Unearthed in Turkey”
Datable tools are always useful in tracking prehistoric migrations.
Maybe the first migrants didn’t survive long, or didn’t get much further than Turkey. Granted that finds are expected to be scarce, but this does seem ‘out on a limb’ in age terms, doesn’t it?
Quite a lot of work has been done on human migrations out of Africa with climate changes opening and closing windows of opportunity.
However this date pushes back the tracking of tool-using groups a very long way in this area.
http://essayweb.net/history/ancient/prehistory.shtml
Most of the mapped out migrations, are much more recent.
Well they can find a little stone tool this, and well done to them, – but no sign of Noah’s Ark yet ?
Not quite none! http://blog.britishmuseum.org/2014/01/24/was-the-ark-round-a-babylonian-description-discovered/
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