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Attirampakkam

Riverbed site north of Chennai with the oldest stone tools in India, in a stratified sequence running from Acheulean handaxes to Levallois flakes. Luminescence dating put the Middle Palaeolithic here at around 385,000 years ago - far earlier than the models that tie that technology to modern humans leaving Africa allow.

Dated events and their evidence

• about 1,500,000 years ago mainstream
  Acheulean occupation (c. 1.0-1.7 million years ago) source
• about 383,000 years ago mainstream
  Levallois technology appears, 385,000 ± 64,000 BP source
• 2018 CE mainstream
  luminescence dating of ~7,200 artefacts published source

Where

13.2306° N, 79.8889° E

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attirampakkam

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