Do you know about these key new discoveries from the old world?
3 years, 2 months ago

Do you know about these key new discoveries from the old world?

Live Mint  

Did you know that the little village of Jwalapuram in Andhra Pradesh’s Kurnool district holds some key revelations about the arrival of early humans in India? Attirampakkam “It has been thought that the Indian Middle Palaeolithic culture developed 90,000-140,000 years ago and was closely tied to the dispersal of modern humans from Africa. Since the 1990s, it has been believed that homo sapiens originated in Africa’s Rift Valley and moved out in two waves, between 100,000 and 60,000 years ago. “Based on this, it was further believed that the first humans would have reached India approximately 50,000 years ago,” mentions an article on LiveHistory.

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Newly discovered stone tools drag dawn of Greek archaeology back by a quarter-million years
1 year, 6 months ago

Newly discovered stone tools drag dawn of Greek archaeology back by a quarter-million years

The Hindu  

Deep in an open coal mine in southern Greece, researchers have discovered the antiquities-rich country's oldest archaeological site, which dates to 700,000 years ago and is associated with modern humans' hominin ancestors. The find announced Thursday would drag the dawn of Greek archaeology back by as much as a quarter of a million years, although older hominin sites have been …

Archaeologists find neolithic stone tools in Hyderabad
1 year, 7 months ago

Archaeologists find neolithic stone tools in Hyderabad

The Hindu  

Archaeologists in Hyderabad have recently found rare stone tools, belonging to the neolithic age, with the findings indicating that the city's history goes back to about 6,000 years. He said they closely looked at a gap between two rocks and found as many neolithic stone tools. ".to our surprise, we noticed two neolithic stone tools which are known as new …

Stone Age discovery fuels mystery of who made early tools
1 year, 10 months ago

Stone Age discovery fuels mystery of who made early tools

The Hindu  

Archaeologists in Kenya have dug up some of the oldest stone tools ever found, but who used them is a mystery. But two big fossil teeth found along with the tools at the Kenyan site belong to an extinct human cousin known as Paranthropus, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Science. The tools date back to around …

Ancient stone tools found in Prakasam lead to startling revelations
2 years, 2 months ago

Ancient stone tools found in Prakasam lead to startling revelations

The Hindu  

Archaeologists and historians are agog over the findings of the Ahmedabad-based Physical Research Laboratory, which stated that stone tools excavated from Hanumanthunipadu in Prakasam district can possibly be as old as 2.47 lakh years old — a development that could change the understanding of human evolution in India. According to a report, the stone tools found in Andhra Pradesh could …

In India, Modern Construction Threatens Prehistoric Sites
4 years, 5 months ago

In India, Modern Construction Threatens Prehistoric Sites

Wired  

This story originally appeared on Undark and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Every evening after archaeologist Shanti Pappu and her colleagues head home for the night, two watchmen patrol the team’s excavation site—a plot of dry scrubland near Sendrayanpalayam village, a two-hour drive from Chennai in southern India. To the left of the carefully dug trenches, for instance, …

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