Archaeological excavations deep within the rainforests of Sri Lanka have unearthed the earliest evidence for hunting with bows and arrows outside Africa. At Fa-Hien Lena, a cave in the heart of Sri ...

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At a jungle-covered cave site in southwestern Sri Lanka, archaeologists have found a remarkable collection of ancient objects, including tools that they believe are among the oldest survival gear ...

This diagram shows the different kinds of animal bones used to make the 48,000-year-old tools. © Langley et al., 2020 Archaeologists digging in a Sri Lankan cave ...