The remains are 49,000 years and is located in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea
Australian scientists announced today the discovery of a human settlement 49,000 years ago in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea, the world's oldest found at an altitude of 2000 meters. The site was buried under volcanic ash in the Valley of Ivane, the Stanley mountain range, near the village of Kokoda, he explained, Andrew Fairbairn, scientific expedition member and professor of Archaeology University of Queensland. The inhabitants of these camps were prehistoric stone tools, hunted and ate small animals tubers and Pandanus tree nuts. "It seems that the layers of volcanic ash created a unique medium that has protected the nutshells. They come in large quantities which gives us unique and very touching evidence of the diet of early Papuans," said Fairbairn. According to the archaeologist, the excavations led to evidence that the traditional system currently used to open these nuts is the same as used by the inhabitants of prehistoric settlement. "What we have discovered knowledge gives us a very unusual and very detailed account of how a community living resources and mobility, able to adapt quickly to unfamiliar environments and territories, "he added. These camps were occupied during the Pleistocene, the warmest time of the Ice Age, when Australia, Tasmania and New Guinea formed a single continent, the Sahul. Its inhabitants have come from Southeast Asia and initially settled in the coast, then move to the mountains where they had to endure freezing temperatures. The study conducted by the team, which was also scientists in Papua New Guinea and the United States, is published today in the journal Science.
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