Artifacts Challenge Theories of History
From Times Wire Reports
Archeologists have found rock art they believe is the oldest in the world and artifacts that suggest human beings lived in Australia far earlier than previously thought. The team said its discoveries at a remote site in Australia’s tropical northwest challenge widely held theories about the history of human life. The group found thousands of dot-like indentations engraved on a group of monoliths that may be 75,000 years old. Stone tools and other findings suggest Australia was inhabited by humans up to 176,000 years ago. Until now, scientists theorized that Australia was first inhabited 60,000 years ago by humans who came via Asia. The oldest reliably dated rock art has been 32,000-year-old cave paintings at Chauvet in France.
