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Old Stone Age artifacts found in UAE
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16:57, July 18, 2007
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Some stone artifacts from the Old Stone Age, the first period in the
human development, were found in the western province of Abu Dhabi, the
largest emirate of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), local newspaper Gulf
News reported Wednesday.
The discovery, which was identified by a team from Abu Dhabi Authority
for Culture and Heritage (ACH) and two visiting scholars, included stone
artifacts made of the Levallois technique, which was known during the Old
Stone Age.
A number of flint cores and flakes of Levallois technique were collected
from the site, Dr. Walid Yasin, manager of the archaeology division of
the ACH, was quoted as saying.
"The significance of this major discovery lies in the fact that it alters
our understanding of the beginning of first human activities in Abu Dhabi
which seem to go back to the Old Stone Age, as opposed to the New Stone
Age, some 7,500 years ago," Yasin said.
The dating of Abu Dhabi artifact is estimated to fall in the Middle
Paleolithic (150,000-35,000 years ago), said Dr. Ganim Wahida from
Cambridge University, who specializes in this period.
Artifacts made of this technique were first discovered in the 19th
century at the archaeological site of Levallois near Paris.
Source: Xinhua
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