TORONTO -- A team of archeologists and geologists has confirmed the oldest cave dwelling at Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa's Kalahari Desert, dating back nearly two million years.
"We can now say with confidence that our human ancestors were making simple Oldowan stone tools inside the Wonderwerk Cave 1.8 million years ago. Wonderwerk is unique among ancient Oldowan sites, a tool-type first found 2.6 million years ago in East Africa, precisely because it is a cave and not an open-air occurrence," lead author, Ron Shaar at Hebrew University's Institute of Earth Sciences, said in a press release.
Due to the difficulty of dating cave deposits, the team worked on a 2.5-metre layer of sedimentary material using paleomagnetism and burial dating.
wonder what life was back then
That's where the party started.
Wow not a covid news