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But as the bones and tools from Dmanisi accumulate, a different picture of the earliest migrants is emerging.
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The earliest humans are silent witnesses: they testify only through their bones and tools.
Rabett, R. J. Bone and tusk tools from the West Mouth and Lobang Hangus.
For 18 years, archaeologist Jean-Philippe Rigaud of the University of Bordeaux in Talence, France, and colleagues meticulously excavated and documented thousands of animal bones and stone tool sets from the Grotte XVI site.
Unlike ancient bones and stone tools, language does not fossilize.
Since 2002, Neolithic buildings, artwork, pottery, animal bones and stone tools have been discovered.
This, alongside associated evidence from what is, to our knowledge, one of the earliest bone tool assemblages in South and Southeast Asia (contemporaneous with the bone tools from Niah Caves dated between 50,000 and 35,000 years BP33), and also one of the earliest beyond Africa, implies highly tuned hunting abilities in tropical rainforest settings upon arrival in this part of the world.
There was a time when scientists who study human evolution had to content themselves with bone fragments and stone tools from our distant ancestors.
Backwell, L., d'Errico, F. & Wadley, L. Middle stone age bone tools from Howiesons Poort layers, Sibudu Cave, South Africa.
In that case, Neandertals could have learned to make the bone tools from incoming H. sapiens after all.
Indeed, Soressi and her colleagues say, the findings raise an even more intriguing possibility: That modern humans in Europe learned some of their technologies, including the making of fine bone tools, from Neandertals, rather than the other way around.
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