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Clues to the earliest known bow-and-arrow hunting outside Africa have been found

Possible arrowheads at a rainforest site in Sri Lanka date to 48,000 years ago

artifacts from Sri Lanka

A Sri Lankan cave yielded artifacts dating to roughly 48,000 years ago, including a notched bone possibly used to make nets (top), a monkey tooth that may have served as a knife (middle) and a possible bone arrowhead (bottom), a study finds.

M.C. Langley

By Bruce Bower

- More than 2 years ago

People hunted with bows and arrows in a rainforest on a South Asian island starting around 48,000 years ago, a new study suggests.