Oldest Metal Object in Middle East Discovered

Friday, August 22, 2014 - 07:00 in Paleontology & Archaeology

A copper awl dating to between 5100 and 4600 B.C. reveals metals were exchanged across hundreds of miles in the southern Levant more than 6,000 years ago, centuries earlier than previously thought, researchers say.

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