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139,000-year-old stone tools discovered in Andhra Pradesh. Who made them?

The discovery of 139,000-year-old stone tools from the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh has stumped archaeologists. It had been assumed that only modern humans were capable of making such tools. But an excavation near a village named Retlapalle in Prakasam district has thrown up so-called “middle-paleolithic” stone tools. Experts now believe that the art of tool-making was likely also practised by some ancient extinct human species.