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48,000-year-old arrowheads reveal early human innovation in the Sri Lankan rainforest: BY Michelle Langley,  Oshan Wedage, Patrick Roberts Source:Conversion Archaeological excavations deep within the rainforests of Sri Lanka have unearthed the earliest evidence for hunting with bows and arrows outside 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 about 48,000 years old. ...