Eighty-Thousand-Year-Old Micro-Projectiles in Uzbekistan Threaten to Upset Standard Prehistoric Flowcharts
Recent excavations at the Obi-Rakhmat rock shelter in Uzbekistan have revealed unretouched triangular microlithic projectile points dating back 80,000 years. Complete with impact traces indicative of early arrow use, these tiny tools match technology previously thought to have been invented millennia later in Western Europe. Mainstream chronologies built on Eurocentric migration models are once again scrambling to explain how advanced composite weaponry managed to show up where it apparently had no business being.