Sunday 27 November 2011

Early Humans Fished Deep Sea


The world's earliest known fish hooks reveal that humans fished the open sea for much longer than previously thought. Researcher Sue O'Connor, an archaeologist at Australian National University in Canberra, and her colleagues have found evidence of prehistoric fishing gear and the remains of large fish such as tuna at a cave shelter known as Jerimalai, located in the Southeast Asian island nation of
East Timor.

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