New York (AP) – Scientists have identified the oldest known evidence for Humans made tools From the whale bone.
The bones, which were designed in tight hunting projectiles, were. It was revealed in the excavations It dates back more than a century in Bay Bay, near Spain and France. Scholars The tools were very oldBut many of them were small fragments, so it was difficult to determine their age.
Technological developments in the past decade have so far made the oldest tools to about 20,000 years. Scientists have found that the bones came from blue whales, soil, sperm whales and other types.
“It is clear that humans and whales face each other for a long time,” said Vicky Zabo of the University of West Carolina, who studies the history of whales and did not participate in the latest research.
Scientists believe that the ancient humans were formulating whale bones tools in places including the Arctic and Southern Pacific. There was strong evidence of whale bones to about 5,000 years, but the new research published on Tuesday in the Nature Communications magazine pushes the schedule back.
The author of the study, Jean -Mark Petron, with the French National Center for Scientific Research, said that the ancient humans were necessarily hunting whales. Most likely, they were poured beach whales bodies and hunting their thick and heavy bones in reindeer or busson hunting tools.
Tools indicate that old people in the area have benefited from resources near the sea to survive. They may have collected seashells and hunting. Scientists said that finding such evidence was difficult because the high levels of sea surface disrupts the coasts around the world.
“It is another contribution to the importance of coastal environments of human groups, even in this long past,” Petron said.
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