June 5, 2019 BBC News Africa [image: image.png]Arizona State University Sceintists have been working for several years to uncover the siteImage caption: Sceintists have been working for several years to uncover the site International and Ethiopian scientists have discovered what they say are the second oldest stone tools to have been found, Nature World News reports <https://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/41341/20190604/oldest-flaked-stone-tools-point-to-the-repeated-invention-of-stone-tools.htm> . The tools, uncovered in the Afar region in north-east Ethiopia, are said to be 2.6 million years old. Research associate on the project, David R Braun, told journalists in Ethiopia that the tools are "pieces of chipped stones" and they are 100,000 years older that another discovery in Ethiopia, the Ethiopian News Agency quotes him as saying. The oldest stone tools ever discovered were found in Kenya and are 3.3 million years old. -- Ann Marie "The art of living consists of knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore." -- Mardy Grothe ################################################################################################# Join the African Association of Madison, Inc. for $25 per year. Mail check to: AAM, PO Box 1016, Madison, WI 53701 Phone: 608-258-0261 Email: [log in to unmask] Web: www.AfricanAssociationofMadison.org ################################################################################################# *** Send email to the list: [log in to unmask] *** *** Access AAM list archives: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/AAM.html ***