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- Lomekwi stone tools: 3.3 million years old. “It is really exciting and very moving to be the first person to pick up a stone artifact since its original maker put it down millions of years ago,” says Jason Lewis, assistant director of the Turkana Basin Institute and co-author of a study published in Nature in 2015 about his team’s discovery in Kenya.
- Sculpture representing a human: 40,000 years old. There are several caves in a mountain range in southern Germany called the Swabian Jura that contains evidence of occupation by Ice Age Homo sapiens around 40,000 years ago—there are remains of campfires, tools, weapons, and jewelry, as well as figurines carved from mammoth ivory with stone tools.
- Stone tools in the Americas: 15,500 years old. At the Buttermilk Creek archaeological site in central Texas, Michael R. Waters, director of the Center for the Study of the First Americans at Texas A&M University, and his team found projectile points, blades, and other tools that date back beyond the time frame that researchers long believed humans had migrated through the Americas after crossing the Bering Strait from Siberia at the end of the last ice age.
- Temple: 11,000 years old. The Gobekli Tepe site in southeastern Turkey, which is filled with large carved stones, was built by people who hadn’t even developed metal tools yet.
- Venus of Hohle Fels
- Löwenmensch Figurine
- Bone Flutes
- Skhul Cave Beads
- Blombos Cave Paint Making Studio
- Acheulean Stone Tools
- Oldowan Stone Tools
- Lomekwi Stone Tools
photo source: Wikimedia Commons The Venus of Hohle Felsfigurine is the oldest sculpture depicting the human figure. It is the oldest “Venus figurine” — any Upper Paleolithic sculpture of a woman — and dates back to about 35,000 – 40,000 years ago. It was discovered in 2008 in the Hohle Fels cave by an archaeological team led by Nicholas J. Conard. ...
photo source: Wikimedia Commons The Löwenmensch figurineis the oldest known piece of figurative art in the world. It is an ivory sculpture of a lion headed human that is between 35,000 – 40,000 years old. The sculpture was first discovered in 1939 by geologist Otto Völzing at the Hohlenstein-Stadel cave, but the start of World War II lead to cave’s...
photo source: Wikimedia Commons According to scientists, the bone flutes found at Geissenkloesterle Cave in Germany are the oldest musical instrumentsever found in the world. Researchers used carbon dating to determine that the flutes were between 42,000 – 43,000 years old. The flutes were made from bird bone and mammoth ivory and are from the Auri...
photo source: newscientist.com The shell beads from Skhul Cave in Israel are thought to be the oldest pieces of jewelry created by humans. The two beads from Skhul are date back to at least 100,000 years agoand a third bead from Oued Djebbana in Algeria is between 35,000 – 90,000 years old. According to archaeologists studying the shells, the snail...
photo source: Live Science The Blombos Cavearchaeological site has been under excavation since 1992 and over the years, they have discovered many artifacts. One of their most recent finds from 2008, was a paint making studio consisting of two toolkits dating back to 100,000 years ago. Researchers discovered traces of a red, paint-like mixture store...
photo source: Wikimedia Commons Acheulean Hand Axeswere used throughout most of early human history. The tools are believed to have first been developed by Homo erectus about 1.76 million years ago and used until the Middle Stone Age (300,000 – 200,000 years ago). The hand axes are named after the St. Acheul archaeological site in France wherethe f...
photo source: Wikimedia Commons Until a 2015 research paper was published, the Oldowan stone tools found in Gona, Ethiopia were believed to be the oldest stone tools ever found. The oldest of the Oldowan tools was dated to about 2.6 million years ago. Researchers aren’t sure who created the tools from Gona asno fossils were found near the artifacts...
photo source: Smithsonian.com The stone tools unearthed at Lomekwi 3, an archaeological site in Kenya, are the oldest artifacts in the world. These stone tools are about 3.3 million years old, long before Homo sapiens(humans) showed up. While researchers aren’t sure which of our early human ancestors made the tools, the discovery suggests that our ...
Sep 22, 2023 · The earliest known wooden artifact, a piece of a polished plank found in Israel, dates to more than 780,000 years ago, per the new paper. And archaeologists have dug up 400,000-year-old...
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Here's a list of ten of the world's oldest everyday objects—from an ancient leather shoe to the oldest Apple computer—and where you can go to see them.
Apr 19, 2024 · Two spear points — really just fragments — are the oldest surviving artifacts that archaeologists have found so far in the Grand Canyon. The Clovis point is a little older, dating somewhere between 9200 B.C.E. to 8900 B.C.E., while the Folsom fragment dates somewhere from 8900 B.C.E. to 8200 B.C.E.
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Feb 21, 2020 · Until 2014, the paintings of Upper paleolithic animals in Chauvet Cave, France, were thought to be the oldest at between 30,000 and 32,000 years old. There was no evidence to contradict the finding and archaeologists believe that this symbolized an explosion of symbolistic artistic art in Europe.
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Jul 14, 2022 · In a study published in 2015 in the journal Nature, researchers reported that, by dating the sediment where the artifacts were found, they estimated the age of the site to be about 3.3...
