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40,000-Year-Old Tools Found at Construction Site

By David KnowlesMar 14th 2010 – 5:17PM
Dr. John Isbell

Dr. John Isbell

(March 14) -- It's being dubbed "Tasmania's Valley of the Kings." At the site for a proposed freeway overpass, archaeologists have uncovered what they say are the earliest southernmost artifacts of human life. Still in the initial stages of excavation, a team of archaeologists unearthed thousands of artifacts near the...

Background on HomoSapiens

Humans (known taxonomically as Homo sapiens, Latin for "wise man" or "knowing man") are the only living species in the Homo genus.

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