Malaysia Says 1.8 Million-year-old Axes Unearthed (Jan. 2009)

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Malaysia Says 1.8 Million-year-old Axes Unearthed (Jan. 2009)

(AP) Malaysian archeologists have unearthed prehistoric stone axes that they said Friday were the world's oldest at about 1.8 million years old.

Seven axes were found with other tools at an excavation site in Malaysia's northern Perak state in June, and tests by a Tokyo laboratory indicate they were about 1.83 million years old, said Mokhtar Saidin, director of the Center for Archaeological Research at the University of Science Malaysia.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/01/30/ap/asia/main4763946.shtml

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Ummm ... huh?

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