Morocco team hails ‘major’ Stone Age discovery dating back 1.3 million years

Find pushes back by hundreds of thousands of years start of stone-tool industry associated with Homo erectus

Archaeologists in Morocco have announced the discovery of north Africa's oldest stone age hand-axe manufacturing site, dating back 1.3m years, an international team has reported.

The find pushes back by hundreds of thousands of years the start date in north Africa of the Acheulian stone-tool industry, associated with the human ancestor Homo erectus, researchers told journalists in Rabat on Wednesday.