Archaeologists find oldest stone-age tools in southern India

[Syama Ayas]

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Archaeologists find oldest stone-age tools in southern India

NEW DELHI, March 25 (Xinhua) -- Archaeologists have discovered India's oldest stone-age tools, up to 1.5 million years old, at a pre-historic site near Chennai, southern India, the Kolkata-based daily The Telegraph reported on Friday.

The discovery may change existing ideas about the earliest arrival of human ancestors from Africa into India, the report said.

A team of Indian and French archaeologists has used two dating methods to show that the stone hand-axes and cleavers from Attirampakkam are at least 1.07 million years old, and could date as far back as 1.5 million years, said the report.

In nearly 12 years of excavation, archaeologists Shanti Pappu and Kumar Akhilesh from the Sharma Center for Heritage Education, Chennai, have found 3,528 artifacts that are similar to the prehistoric tools discovered in western Asia and Africa, it added.

Their finding will appear on Saturday in the U.S. journal " Science", according to the report.

[metro]

Is it possible these weapons are from the Ramayan era ?

[Avisheik]

Is it possible these weapons are from the Ramayan era ?

I dont think so. Ramayana era had metal weapons. These weapons are made out of stone

[desioptimist]

Is it possible these weapons are from the Ramayan era ?

What is ramayan era?

[Avisheik]

I think the ramayan era was when the ramayan was written, which was around 450 BCE

[Developereo]

That is interesting.

According to the prevailing theory of human evolution, these stone tools in India were made by Homo erectus, not modern humans.

Early human migrations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Early human migrations began when Homo erectus first migrated out of Africa over the Levantine corridor and Horn of Africa to Eurasia about 1.8 million years ago, a migration probably sparked by the development of language.[1] The expansion of H. erectus out of Africa was followed by that of Homo antecessor into Europe around 800,000 years ago, followed by Homo heidelbergensis around 600,000 years ago, where they probably evolved to become the Neanderthals.[2]

Modern humans, Homo sapiens, evolved in Africa up to 200,000 years ago and reached the Near East around 125,000 years ago.[3] From the Near East, these populations spread east to South Asia by 50,000 years ago, and on to Australia by 40,000 years ago[citation needed], when for the first time H. sapiens reached territory never reached by H. erectus. H. sapiens reached Europe around 40,000 years ago, eventually replacing the Neanderthal population. East Asia was reached by 30,000 years ago.

[Skull and Bones]

There are still many historical sites in India waiting to be uncovered. There is evidence of an early civilization in north-eastern India mainly in Assam.

[metro]

That is interesting.

According to the prevailing theory of human evolution, these stone tools in India were made by Homo erectus, not modern humans.

Early human migrations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

does this mean its true that life actually started and evolved in India.?
ive also heard that both Indian and African continents were joined together thousands of years before.

[Avisheik]

ive also heard that both Indian and African continents were joined together thousands of years before.

I dont think so africa and india were joined during the time of the dinosaurs. They were seperated by the time the first ancestors of humans started to develop

[Skull and Bones]

ive also heard that both Indian and African continents were joined together thousands of years before.

Nope!
India-Australia was a part of Gondowana land mass with Australia, New Zealand etc.
Here's a picture of India's tectonic drift.

[Developereo]

does this mean its true that life actually started and evolved in India.?
ive also heard that both Indian and African continents were joined together thousands of years before.

The early hominids evolved strictly in Africa.

There was a first migration of Homo erectus out of Africa 1.8 mya and they spread through Eurasia.

There was a second migration of Homo sapiens (i.e. us) out of Africa 200 kya. The mainstream theory, supported by genetics, is that this group completely replaced the descendents of Homo erectus throughout the world. There is a minority view that Homo erectus continued to evolve in Eurasia and they merged with the new Homo sapiens, but I think it is considered strictly a fringe theory.

[SpArK]

Nope!
India-Australia was a part of Gondowana land mass with Australia, New Zealand etc.
Here's a picture of India's tectonic drift.

Wrong choice for the land merger..

[Spring Onion]

Wrong choice for the land merger..

how dee where you had been.

[SpArK]

how dee where you had been.

Middle of the middle east.

[Spring Onion]

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Middle of the middle east.

Any chance of land merger middle moving to east ?