The site, first uncovered in 2005, also included bone points, shell beads, the remains of fish, turtles, pythons, rodents, bats and birds, and nearly 10,000 stone artifacts.

WASHINGTON: Archaeologists have discovered what they say are the world's earliest known fish hooks which suggest humans started fishing in the open sea much earlier than previously thought. Past ...

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But in just one of those pits, 1 metre square and 2 metres deep, they found 39,000 fish bones along with a number of stone artefacts, bone points, animal remains, shell beads and fish hooks.