Ancient stone tools recently discovered in China could rewrite history: China: business time

Archaeologists have recently discovered a treasure of ancient stone tools in China. Many archaeologists believe that these ancient stone tools will help fill a void in China's archaeological history. Many experts believe that ancient tools will help explain how the human species has spread around the world.

It is widely accepted that the predecessors of the present human species began to make tools more than three million years ago. Experts believe that these tools have become increasingly complex as the brains of older humans began to develop. About 300,000 years ago, a tool-making technique known as "Levallois" began to spread in Western Eurasia and Africa.

This new Levallois technique involves working the stone so that the flakes that come out become the tools. This is the opposite of the previous technique of chipping glitter to create a tool. Experts believe that with the proliferation of Levallois technique, human ancestors have been able to create several tools from a single stone.

The recent discovery in China surprised by the fact that the Levallois technique did not arrive in the region about 40 000 years ago. With the recent discovery, this idea has begun to be questioned by experts. Experts from the University of Wollongong, Australia, confirmed that the old tools discovered in China were Levallois tools and that they were 160,000 to 170,000 years old, well below the original estimate of 40,000 years.

The recent discovery also reinforced another discovery made in India early in the year. Researchers have found Levallois stone tools at a dig site in Attirampakkam, India, dating back about 385,000 years. These findings further confirmed the theory that ancestors from the Central and Eastern Eurasia region had begun to make Levallois tools much earlier than expected.

At the time of writing these lines, the experts still do not know who these former toolmakers are. It is even harder to find out who these people are because no human fossils have been found on these sites.

Previous studies have linked the Levallois tools discovered in Africa to the Homo Sapiens species. On the other hand, Levallois tools discovered in Europe were associated with Neanderthals. One theory suggests that Neanderthal species migrated to China carrying Levallois tools.