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An additional 130 artifacts were found on the surface. In one instance, Harmand's team was able to match a flake to its core, suggesting a hominin had made and discarded the tool at the site. [2] The tools were generally quite large – larger than the oldest known stone tools, recovered in the Gona area of the Afar Region of Ethiopia, in 1992
The following is a list of the world's oldest surviving physical documents. Each entry is the most ancient of each language or civilization. For example, the Narmer Palette may be the most ancient from Egypt, but there are many other surviving written documents from Egypt later than the Narmer Palette but still more ancient than the Missal of Silos.
10-5.5 kya Rock art of the Iberian Mediterranean Basin; 9 kya Elk's Head of Huittinen, sculpture exhibited at the National Museum of Finland. 7 kya Adam of Govrlevo (North Macedonia), or "Adam of Macedonia". At more than 7,000 years old, the sculpture is the oldest artifact found in the Republic of North Macedonia. The artist depicts a sitting ...
The oldest human skeletal remains are the 40ky old Lake Mungo remains in New South Wales, but human ornaments discovered at Devil's Lair in Western Australia have been dated to 48 kya and artifacts at Madjedbebe in Northern Territory are dated to at least 50 kya, and to 62.1 ± 2.9 ka in one 2017 study. [26] [27] [28] [29]
Göbekli Tepe is littered with flint artifacts, from the ridge-top site to the slopes. [84] The tool assemblage found resembles that of other Northern Levantine Pre-Pottery Neolithic (settlement) sites. [85] In 1963, over 3,000 Neolithic tools were uncovered, the vast majority of excellent quality flint, only a handful of obsidian.
The lack of other evidence of human activity (e.g. human or animal remains, or non-tool artifacts). The deep antiquity of the site (the next oldest date for human artifacts in the Americas is 30,000 BP, and that date itself is controversial). The sheer number of possible tools, up to 60,000 by one account. [6]
Oldest extant buildings in Honduras, constructed by ancestors of the Lenca people. [126] Nan Madol: Federated States of Micronesia: Oceania: 700s CE City City constructed by the Pohnpeians in the 700s CE on human-made islands (also created by the Pohnpeians). Nan Madol contains the oldest known extant buildings in Oceania. Cape Adare huts Ross ...
Gemstones and Lapis Lazuli: Lapis lazuli artifacts, dated to 7570 BCE, have been found at Bhirrana, which is the oldest site of the Indus Valley Civilisation. [59] Sesame oil: Sesame seeds were one of the first crops processed for oil as well as one of the earliest condiments. Sesame was cultivated during the Indus Valley Civilisation and was ...