World’s oldest axe fragment found in Australia
Australian archaeologists have discovered a piece of the world’s oldest axe in the remote Kimberley region of Western Australia.The axe fragment is about the size of a thumbnail and dates back to a Stone Age period of 45,000 to 49,000 years ago – at, or very soon after, the time humans arrived on the continent, and more than ten millennia earlier than any previous ground-edge axe discoveries. The University of Sydney’s Professor Peter Hiscock is the lead and corresponding author of a new analysis of the fragment published today in the journal Australian Archaeology. He said the axe