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Every year they seem to push that number further and further back.
It'd be interesting to see some of the tools they brought with them
Given that the only record we have of them are some footprints in the middle of a desert, I think finding their tools is going to be a little more challenging.
More than anything, though, I think this demonstrates just how non-permanent human civilisation is.
This result is just confirming the same dating for the same fossils published two years ago, using different methods.