Tool sharpens focus on Stone Age networking in the Middle East
Implement found in Syria was chipped out of obsidian deposit hundreds of kilometers away
WELL TRAVELED A new chemical analysis finds that this 41,000- to 32,000-year-old obsidian tool, previously unearthed in a Syrian rock-shelter, was transported more than 700 kilometers. That means that long-distance movement of obsidian into the Middle East occurred much earlier than previously thought, researchers say.
E. Frahm