The oldest tools of early people in Europe were discovered in Ukraine.

Ancient stone tools found in western Ukraine may be the oldest known evidence of early human presence in Europe.

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This is evidenced by the results of a new study published in the journal Nature, reports Phys.org.

The broken stones, specially made from volcanic rock, were extracted from a quarry in Korolevo (Transcarpathian region) in the 70s of the 20th century. Currently, archaeologists, using the latest methods, have established the age of the layers of sedimentary rocks surrounding the tools – it is more than 1 million years.

This is the oldest dated evidence of human existence in Europe,” notes study co-author Mads Faurshu Knudsen, a geophysicist from Aarhus University (Denmark).

He says it’s impossible to say with certainty which early human ancestor made tools, but it may have been Homo erectus, the first species to walk upright and learn to use fire.

We don’t have fossils, so we can’t be sure,” said Roman Garba, another co-author of the study, an archaeologist from the Czech Academy of Sciences.

The chipped stone tools were likely used for cutting meat and possibly scraping animal skins, he said.

Researchers suggest the tools could be up to 1.4 million years old, but other experts note that the study’s methodology suggests they may be no more than 1 million years old, putting them in roughly the same date range as other ancient objects. tools found in Spain.

In general, the most ancient stone tools of this type were discovered in eastern Africa and date back to 2.8 million years ago.

According to Rick Potts, director of the Human Origins program at the Smithsonian Institution in the United States, the discovery in Ukraine is significant because “it is the oldest find this far north,” suggesting that the early humans who spread out of Africa carried these tools , were able to survive in different conditions.

Early humans with this ancient stone tool technology were able to colonize everywhere from warm Iberia (Spain) to the Ukraine, where it is at least seasonally very cold—an amazing level of adaptability, notes Potts.

Source: Phys.org

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