South Africa: One Million-Year-Old Artefacts Excavated in South Africa

ARTEFACTS of stone age tools said to have been excavated by archaeologists at a site as old as one million year have been dated to the early Stone Age period.

According to Sci-News.com, the objects, which include hand axes, flakes and other tools were found recently at an archaeological site near the town of Kathu in Northern Cape Province, South Africa. The archaeologists from the University of Toronto and the University of Cape Town describes the Kathu Townlands archaeological site as one component of a grouping of prehistoric sites known as the Kathu Complex. "The site, named the Kathu Townlands, is one of the richest archaeological sites in South Africa. It is up to 1,000,000 years old."

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