If the Early Dates for Bone Tools Found at Katanda

question 37

Multiple Choice

If the early dates for bone tools found at Katanda are correct, then

• A)this technology dates to about 1.5 million years ago.
• B)African cultural innovations must have lagged behind those of Europe.
• C)this technology dates to about 100,000 years ago.
• D)Africa may rival many European Upper Paleolithic innovations, as early as 80,000 ya.
• E)this shows European H. sapiens habitation of the site.

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