In early 1980s it was proposed that microlith technologies alongside bone technologies and ochre use was in Sri Lanka way earlier than they did in Europe. According to a research published yesterday by a group of international archeologists in the Science Advances journal, they have found out the oldest evidence of bow and arrow use by prehistoric humans outside of Africa from a cave named Fa Hien lena cave in Sri Lanka.
Fa Hien lena site is also the site of the earliest fossil appearence of the Homo sapiens in South Asia. Scientists have discovered fragments of arrowheads made from the bones of boars, deers, primates and other creatures to capture fast moving preys and forest canopy.
Among the bone tools there were scrapers associated with making clothes or fibers for fishing nets. Coloured beads made of mineral ochre and decorative shell beads most likely traded from the coast were also found.
These findings provides a new insight into how Homo sapiens adapted to diverse environments as they spread through the globe.
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