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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 bones ...

Researchers have found 48,000-year-old advanced tool technology at the Fa-Hien Lena cave in southwestern Sri Lanka. It's also the earliest tech of its kind to be found outside of Africa.

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 ...

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 ...

This is an example of tools manufactured from monkey bones and teeth recovered from the Late Pleistocene layers of Fa Hien Cave, Sri Lanka. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for ...

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 ...

Caption Map of Sri Lanka with the site of Fa-Hien Lena shown alongside views of the cave and section from which the materials of the study come.

However, in 2019 scientists released a study analyzing monkey and squirrel bones found in the island’s same cave. Their work revealed that early humans had hunted the mammals. Fa-Hien Lena is ...