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A plethora of stone tools have just been discovered in southern India which may show that Homo sapiens left Africa at a much earlier data than previously thought. 7,000 artifacts have now been recovered from Attirampakkam which date to between 385,000 to 172,000 years ago.
While the recent find of a 200,000-year-old jawbone in Israel has already shown that humans may have departed Africa much sooner than scientists believed, these tools may also challenge the previously estimated migration of Homo sapiens.
It has been widely assumed that Middle Palaeolithic technology first came to India 140,000 years at the very earliest, but scientists have said that they are still currently “very cautious” when it comes to speculation about these new stone tools. This is because there were no human remains found with these tools, showing they were definitively made by humans, and because these same tools have also been shown to have been used by Neanderthals.