6 February, 2018 - 22:56 ashley cowie
171,000-Year-Old Fire Forged Tool Discovered Beneath a Giant Elephant
171,000 years ago, in Tuscany, a set of ancient tools were crafted and forged with fire.
Archaeologists in Florence, Italy, made an incredible discovery during construction work at Poggetti Vecchi. A paper published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), details the discovery of “fragmented wooden and stone tools, together with the fossilized bones of the straight-tusked elephant ( Paleoloxodon antiquus )…radiometrically dated to about 171,000 years old.â€
http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/171000-year-old-fire-forged-tool-discovered-beneath-giant-elephant-009558