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<< News >> Animal Bones and Flint Tools Found in Archeological Site in Palmyra

Submitted by coldrum on Sunday, 22 July 2007  Page Views: 1398

DiscoveriesCountry: Syria The Syrian-Swiss archeological expedition started work for this season in Bir al-Hamel in the Palmyra semi-desert.

According to the Swiss expedition director, this site which dates back to 1 million years BC is one of the oldest civilization sites in Syria, composed of several layers of earth stacked one over the other and are 30 meters high.

The site contains flint artifacts and bones of animals that used to inhabit the region such as the camel, the gazelle and the elephant, in addition to human bones from the period when humans lived on hunting and gathering and resided in caves and straw tents.

Director of Palmyra Archeology Department Walid Asaad stated that the camel bones found at the site indicate that this camel was twice the size of modern camels, and that it is native of the Syrian semi-desert and that it lived in it 100 thousand years ago then migrated to Asia and North Africa, contrary to previous scientific theories.

He also pointed out that the site contains tools and blade made of flint that indicate to the development of methods of manufacturing and sharpening flint in prehistoric times.

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200,000-year-old flint tools found in Syrian desert by coldrum on Thursday, 16 July 2009
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200,000-year-old flint tools found in Syrian desert

A Swiss archeological mission has found pre- historic flints and skeletons dating back 200,000 years in the desert of Palmyra in Syria, local media reported Sunday.

The joint Swiss-Syrian team, which has now finished its dig at Al Koum, near Palmyra, said it had found a series of items dating back between 100-200,000 years, including peculiarly-moulded flints, which prove the ability of the Transitional Age Homo sapien to properly use flint tools , al Thawra Daily reported.

The paper quoted the Director of Antiquities in Palmyra as saying that the most important findings was the remains of a giant camel, double the size of a modern-day camel, and which suggests that this kind of camel was native to the region and not imported.


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