The World's First Fish Hooks? (3 of 4) (IMAGE)
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A complete shell fish hook from the Pleistocene levels of a cave site at the east end of Timor. This hook is made on Trochus shell and is dated to ~11,000 cal years BP. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the Nov. 25, 2011, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by S. O’Connor of Australian National University in Canberra, ACT, Australia, and colleagues, was titled, “Pelagic Fishing at 42,000 Years Before the Present and the Maritime Skills of Modern Humans.”
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Image courtesy of Susan O'Connor
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