Stone Tools Made By Ancient Humans Found In Arabia Date To Surprisingly Recently
Ancestral human beings created a style of putz known as Acheulean around 1.5 million years ago . Eventually , both the technology and the species responsible vanish . The discovery of Acheulean handaxes on the Arabian Peninsula in 190,000 - year - sure-enough grunge layer marks easily the most recent examples of these tools we have found . What make this find really intriguing is that the date brings Acheulean technology tantalizingly tight to overlapping with the firstHomo Sapiensoutside Africa ....