The Past Is Present

Tools and other artifacts found in a cave in South Africa are 44,000 years old. Not only are they 20,000 years older than other such finds, but they are nearly identical to the tools used by today's San bush people. "You can hold [one of the] ancient artefacts in your left hand and a modern artefact in your right and they're exactly the same," said Dr. Lucinda Backwell, of South Africa's University of Witwatersrand (and, yes, you're reading it correctly: We spell it "artifacts," and the British and others spell it "artefacts"): http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19069560