discovered in southeastern India stone tools at least a million years. Style 3500 Acheulean tools found in a place called Attirampakkam in Kortallayar River Basin.
were dated between 1.07 million years and some up to 1.77 million years. Among the hundreds of Acheulean tools were discovered 76 typical handaxe Acheulean in Africa is from 1.6 million years ago.
The study was published in Science. Imply that Homo erectus came out earlier than thought in Africa, as an author, archaeologist Shanti Pappu, Sharma Centre for Heritage Education in Tamil Nadu. "Acheulean toolmakers were clearly present in South Asia more than 1 million years ago," said Pappu. Before tools had been discovered in India, but with poor dated. No hominid fossils have been found associated with stone remains.
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