Native American stone tool technology unearthed in Yemen, Oman

Photo caption: Archaeologists recently unearthed 8,000-year-old evidence of fluted point technology in the Arabian Peninsula, a technology developed by Native Americans a few thousand years earlier. Photo by Jérémie Vosges/CNRS. Article by Brooks Hays.

Aug. 5 (UPI) — Archaeologists recently discovered 8,000-year-old stone fluted points on the Arabian Peninsula, the same technology developed by Native Americans 13,000 years ago, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal PLOS One.

When the stone tools were first unearthed, researchers suspected there was something familiar about them. Scientists took note of the flute-like grooves texturing the sides of the stone points. […]

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