Paris (AFP) - Anthropologists on Wednesday said they had found the earliest engraving in human history on a fossilised mollusc shell some 500,000 years old, unearthed in colonial-era Indonesia.
The zigzag scratching, together with evidence that these shells were used as a tool, should prompt a rethink about the mysterious early human called Homo erectus, they said.
The discovery comes through new scrutiny of 166 freshwater mussel shells found at Trinil, on the banks of the Bengawan Solo river in East Java, where one of the most sensational finds in fossil-hunting was made.
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Thank you for posting this.There are still enough nerds like myself around to find this type of thing fascinating.At the risk of offending religious scholars I would argue that this was done by MODERN MAN 500,000 years ago.Try engraving the pattern in the photo on a clamshell without a straightedge.It can be done but not easily,especially without modern steel.The fact that human civilizations existed long before biblical reference was made of it does not compromise the Holy Bible in any way.It merely causes us to rethink the biblical timelines and re evaluate scripture.
The shell might be that old but the marks may not be.
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