Friday, July 1

Hi-Tech Stone Age Site Found

Thought you might find this interesting:

2.34-million-year-old Hi-Tech tool manufacturing site found

A 2.34-million-year-old tool manufacturing site in East Africa may have been the Stone Age's center for high tech, according to French archaeologists who studied more than 2,600 artifacts excavated there.

The archaeologists believe relics at the site in Kenya, called Lokalalei 2C, display a level of tool-making sophistication among its dwellers that was unique to the Late Pliocene, which occurred between 2.6 and 2.0 million years ago.

Read more...<http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20050627/stoneagetool.html>

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