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  • Oldest ever engraving discovered on half-a-million-year-old shell

    3 December 2014

    About half a million years ago, Homo erectus on Java was already using the shells of freshwater mussels as raw material for tools and as a “canvas” for an engraving. Dutch scientists report on this in Nature (4 December 2014). The discovery provides new insights into the evolution of human behaviour. This research result is a beautiful example of interdisciplinary NWO research: dating methods from the Earth sciences provide insights into the humanities.

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