SYDNEY — The world's oldest known high-altitude human settlements,
dating back up to 49,000 years, have been found sealed in volcanic ash
in Papua New Guinea mountains, archaeologists said Friday.
Researchers
have unearthed the remains of about six camps, including fragments of
stone tools and food, in an area near the town of Kokoda, said an
archaeologist on the team, Andrew Fairbairn.
"What we've got there
are basically a series of campsites, that's what they look like anyway.
The remains of fires, stone tools, that kind of thing, on ridgetops,"
the University of Queensland academic told AFP.
"It's not like a village or anything like that, they are these campsite areas that have been repeatedly used."
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