Sentences with phrase «earlier stone tools remained»

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In 2011, another Nature paper featuring Dr Katerina Douka of the Oxford team obtained some very early dates (around 45,000 years old) for the so - called «transitional» Uluzzian stone - tool industry of Italy and identified teeth remains in the site of the Grotta del Cavallo, Apulia, as those of anatomically modern humans.

But according to a new study, the true surprise lies buried deep beneath the 30 - meter - tall mound: stone tools, animal bones, and plant remains left behind by some of the earliest known Americans nearly 15,000 years ago.

The researchers have so far found no remains of early humans, stone tools or other signs of occupation, but they think that Neanderthals made the structures, because no other hominins are known in western Europe at that time.

It remains unclear what hominin species was responsible for the manufacture of the earlier and later stone tool assemblages from Jubbah, and it is entirely possible that more than one species was involved.