Stone tools uncovered in Gobi desert
Stone tools uncovered in Gobi desert.
Stone tools uncovered in Gobi desert. The joint Mongolian-Polish archeological expedition found traces of ancient settlements in the Gobi desert, which brimmed with life thousands of years ago. The archeological research carried out in the southern reaches of the desert has revealed the highly diversified forms of objects and the varied techniques of working stone which prove that certain locations were repeatedly colonized across history, said Józef Szykulski of Wroclaw University. The oldest tools date to the Middle Paleolithic, between 200,000 and 40,000 years ago, and were found in an area that once had lakes and abundant wildlife. The archeologists also discovered eleven jasper artifacts, which were dated to about 40,000 years old. The joint expedition sought to trace the history of human settlement in the Pleistocene and early Holocene periods in an area between the Altai mountain range and the Gobi desert of Mongolia.
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