Stone Age find
NZPA-Reuter Moscow More than 2000 tools and a number of caves probably used as dwellings have been found at what Tass news agency described 'as Eurasia’s oldest Stone Age site. The Paleolithic site of Diring-Yuryakha, dating back some two million years, was discovered four years ago on the River Lena, 140 km upstream from Yakutsk in Siberia.
Since then, permafrost has been removed over an area of 10,000 square metres, and archaeologists have uncovered a soil layer containing the caves and more than 2000 tools of various sorts.
By studying the frozen soil, the archaeologists concluded that the temperature in which Diring man had lived never rose above -lOdeg. Celsius so he must have been able to make clothes and fire.
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Press, 25 July 1986, Page 7
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