Earliest hominin presence
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00:01 UTC+8 July 13, 2018
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Ancient tools discovered in China by archeologists suggest there may have been a hominin presence outside Africa earlier than previously thought, according to a study published in Nature on Wednesday.
A team, led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Zhu Zhaoyu, found a series of stone tools from the Early Pleistocene at Shangchen on China’s Loess Plateau. The oldest dated back 2.12 million years — 270,000 years older than the 1.85 million years old skeletal remains and tools from Dmanisi, Georgia, previously the earliest evidence of humanity outside Africa.
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