Mammoth Skeleton at the Natural History Museum in Stuttgart, Germany
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Archaeologists excavating rocks 400,000 years old in western Ukraine have revealed fragments of what could be the oldest human ivory object ever discovered. These artifacts could have been too soft for use as cutting tools, but they could have been used as education, researchers suggest.
“If the interpretation is correct, they add to the obvious growing numbers of pre-modern human intelligence.” Gary Haynes At the University of Nevada.
Source: www.newscientist.com