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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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