Exterior view of the entrance of Fa-Hien Lena cave in Sri Lanka, where archaeological evidence suggests humans lived about 45,000 years ago. O. Wedage Sing, archaeologist, an ode to the African ...

Exciting research based on finds at the Fa-Hien Lena (cave) in Kalutara are transforming anthropologists’ understanding of how Homo sapiens moved through our world some 45,000 years ago, while ...

Microliths in the South Asian rainforest ~45-4 ka: New insights from Fa-Hien Lena Cave, Sri Lanka. PLOS ONE, 14 (10), e0222606. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0222606 ...

Beads, awls used to make clothing or nets, and arrowheads were found at the Fa-Hien Lena cave in southwest Sri Lanka. The discovery is the oldest evidence of archery to be found in the region and ...

Researchers studied about 14,500 bone and tooth fragments from Sri Lanka’s Fa Hien Cave. Of the animal remains, 70 percent were of tree squirrels and monkeys, including macaques and purple-faced ...

According to a new paper published in PLUS One, microliths seen in the Fa Hien cave in the tropical rainforests of Sri Lanka date to 45,000 years ago. Their existence at this location suggests a ...

Fa-Hien Lena (Cave) or Pahiyangala as it is also known, is a prehistoric cave associated with the Chinese priest Fa-Hien who is believed to have stayed there in the 5 th century AD. The cave is ...

A Thesis was based on ‘Stratigraphical Analysis of Fa-Hien Cave in Sri Lanka, comparing stratigraphy in 1988 and 2009’ which he obtained from Deccan College of Research and Archaeology.

Archaeologists led from the Max Planck Institute in Germany and colleagues analysed microliths, from the west Sri Lankan cave of Fa-Hein Lena, that date back to around 48,000-45,000 years ago.

The Fa Hien Cave overlooking the rainforest in Sri Lanka. Max Planck Institute Tiny stone tools — known as microliths — were essential to the growth of our species thousands of years ago.

At Fa-Hien Lena, a cave in the heart of Sri Lanka’s wet zone forests, we discovered numerous tools made of stone, bone, and tooth – including a number of small arrow points carved from bone which are ...