Friday 26 December 2014

500,000-Year-Old Homo erectus Engraving Discovered

500,000-Year-Old Homo erectus Engraving Discovered


A multinational group of scientists led by Prof Wil Roebroeks of Leiden University in the Netherlands has discovered the earliest known engraving on a fossilized shell from the famous Homo erectus site of Trinil, on the Indonesian island of Java. While cataloging hundreds of freshwater mussel shells collected at the end of the 19th century by the Dutch anatomist and geologist Eugene Dubois – the discoverer of Java man...

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