Archaeology, like anthropology, history and sociology, is a fundamental field of science for understanding past cultures. The objects of study of this science are the traces left by ancient peoples. The scientific consensus — always subject to change depending on discoveries — establishes that our first ancestors emerged six million years ago. However, there is no consensus on which is the oldest archaeological site in the world.
to the scientific journal Live Scienceexperts claim that there are at least two points on Earth that are home to sites with the potential to be the oldest existing archaeological depositaries, and both are located in Africa: Kenya and Ethiopia.
In Kenya, the first site is located in the region of Turkana, it is the archaeological site Lomekwi 3. In this place hominid bones and stone artifacts were discovered. According to an article published in the scientific journal Nature in 2015, the site was dated at around 3.3 million years old. The utensils found at the site would have belonged to the Australopithecus afarensis.
In Ethiopia, the site competing for the title of the oldest archaeological site in the world is on the banks of the Kada Gona River, in the Afar depression. stone tools made by Australopithecus garhi, which would have lived in the region about 2.5 million years ago, were discovered by archaeologists along with fossilized material. There is yet another place in Ethiopia vying for the title: Ledi-Geraru. At this site, scientists found fragments of a human jaw about 2.8 million years old. Regardless of which of these sites is the oldest in the world, they all make the Pyramids of Giza (4,500 years old) and Stonehenge (5,000 years old) look like recent constructions.