Pushing Back The Dates
Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2021 9:10 am
Virtually doubling the time frame for Aechulian hand axes in Morocco.
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Scientists in Morocco unearth Stone Age hand-axe dating back 1.3 million years
Archaeologists in Morocco have announced the discovery of North Africa's oldest Stone Age hand-axe manufacturing site, dating back 1.3 million years, an international team reported Wednesday.
The find pushes back by hundreds of thousands of years the start date in North Africa of the Acheulian stone tool industry associated with a key human ancestor, Homo erectus, researchers on the team told journalists in Rabat.
It was made during excavations at a quarry on the outskirts of the country's economic capital Casablanca.
This "major discovery ... contributes to enriching the debate on the emergence of the Acheulian in Africa," said Abderrahim Mohib, co-director of the Franco-Moroccan "Prehistory of Casablanca" programme.
Before the find, the presence in Morocco of the Acheulian stone tool industry was thought to date back 700,000 years.