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RECENTLY DISCOVERED ARTIFACTS IN SOUTH INDIA SUGGEST THAT EARLY HUMANS LIVED IN THE REGION MORE THAN A MILLION YEARS AGO, CONTEMPORARY WITH OTHER EARLY HUMAN POPULATIONS THAT LIVED IN AFRICA AND SOUTHWEST ASIA. The discovery may finally answer the long-standing question about when early humans migrated into South Asia, a question that has puzzled scientists for years.



The artifacts, Acheulean stone cutting tools, were uncovered by a team of researchers at a site in the Kortallaiyar river basin in Attirampakkam, India. Acheulean tools are usually associated with early humans who lived between 1.6 million and 100,000 years ago in Africa and southwest Asia and, based on earlier archaeological excavations and studies, are thought to have originated in Africa around 1.6 million years ago and then spread through Eurasia later. The precise chronology, or timing, of the spread of this technology and thus their associated toolmakers through India and South Asia has remained a mystery.  However, excavating at the Attirampakkam site, Shanti Pappu of the Sharma Center of Heritage Education and his team unearthed more than 3,500 quartzite stone artifacts, including cleavers, flakes, and more than 70 Acheulean handaxes datable to over 1 million years in age.