We just got an extra 80K years.
Posted in Eli's Blog on December 5th, 2008 by Eli – Comments OffWhile I often trash National Geographic (along with other popular-science magazines) in favor of true Scientific Journals, this one is a bit interesting, and states that the paper reflecting this find is due to appear in Geology. According to NeoGeo they’ve found some stone tools predating the earliest Homo Sapiens remains by 80,000 years. These tools are apparently sophisticated enough that they are attributed to Homo Sapiens, and date to about 276,000 years ago (the oldest Homo Sapiens remains are about 195,000 years old).