Fishy find shows humans skilled anglers 42,000 years ago

Saturday, January 14, 2012 - 12:20 in Paleontology & Archaeology

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Fish hooks and fishbones dating back 42,000 years found in a cave in East Timor suggest that humans were capable of skilled, deep-sea fishing 30,000 years earlier than previously thought, researchers in Australia and Japan said on Friday.

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