At 350,000 Years: Diggers Find The Oldest Known Grinding Tool Used in Tabun Cave Published December 29th, 2020 - 07:37 GMT (Shutterstock)
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It is believed to be home to one of the longest periods of human occupation in the Levant.
Archaeologists believe they ve found the oldest known tool used for grinding or scraping, dating back some 350,000 years.
Found in the Tabun Cave in northern Israel, the implement is a cobble, a type of small rounded stone, and predates homo sapiens by at least 50,000 years.
Previously, such tools weren t thought to have been introduced until much later, approximately 200,000 years ago.
A reanalysis of a single stone tool found in Tabun Cave in northern Israel changes our entire thinking about part of our deep technological evolution https://t.co/21rDqHIyD6