INDIA: The constantly evolving map of early human migration has another new path. Seventy Acheulean hand axes, early stone tools thought to have been made by Homo erectus, and hundreds of other tools found in southern India have been dated—using both paleomagnetic and cosmogenic nuclide burial dating—to between 1 and 1.5 million years ago, suggesting that early human species left Africa and the Near East more than 500,000 years earlier than previously thought.
INDIA
Around the World July 1, 2011
Recommended Articles
Digs & Discoveries May/June 2024
Educational Idols
Digs & Discoveries September/October 2023
The Elephant and the Buddha
Digs & Discoveries January/February 2022
Tamil Royal Palace
-
Features September/October 2024
Hunting for the Lost Temple of Artemis
After a century of searching, a chance discovery led archaeologists to one of the most important sanctuaries in the ancient Greek world
Courtesy Swiss School of Archaeology in Greece -
Features July/August 2024
Java's Megalithic Mountain
Across the Indonesian archipelago, people raised immense stones to honor their ancestors
(Courtesy Lutfi Yondri) -
Features July/August 2024
The Assyrian Renaissance
Archaeologists return to Nineveh in northern Iraq, one of the ancient world’s grandest imperial capitals
(Land of Nineveh Archaeological Project) -
Features May/June 2024
Searching for Lost Cities
From Iraq to West Africa and the English Channel to the Black Sea, archaeologists are on the hunt for evidence of once-great cities lost to time
(© BnF, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais/Art Resource, NY)