“Unearthed Secrets: How 78,000-Year-Old Artifacts Could Rewrite the Story of Humanity’s Stone Age”
Imagine stumbling upon a cave that hasn’t whispered its secrets for over 67,000 years—like finding an ancient diary in your grandma’s attic, but instead of dusty love letters, it’s packed with Stone Age innovations. Recent explorations in coastal Kenya’s Panga ya Saidi cave have turned our understanding of early human adaptability on its head! With artifacts ranging from tools to the oldest known bead in Kenya, researchers are suggesting that flexibility and resourcefulness were the real MVPs behind major advancements in the Stone Age, rather than the traditional theories of abrupt revolutions or migrations. Who knew our ancestors were such pros at rolling with the punches? Dive into this captivating journey through time where adaptability isn’t just a trait; it’s the secret sauce of human survival! LEARN MORE.
The discovery shows that humans’ remarkable ability to adapt is the real reason major advances happened during the Stone Age.
Mohammad ShoaeeThe first substantial cave record from coastal Kenya shows gradual changes in innovations beginning 67,000 years ago.
An international, interdisciplinary group of researchers have uncovered human innovations from at least 67,000 years ago. The artifacts were found in a cave located in a coastal area of Africa that, up until now, there was very little information on.
The research, published in the journal Nature Communications gives us new information about human history and evolution.
Nicole Boivin, from the Department of Archaeology at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Germany and an author of the study, spoke with All That’s Interesting about the discoveries. She described the coastal East African cave, called Panga ya Saidi, as, “an enormous, beautiful, well-preserved complex. The cave roofs had fallen in many thousands of years ago so the caves were open to the sky and dripping with vines.”
