The discovery of the world's oldest hook demonstrate that men are fishing on the high seas far longer than previous theories.
The world's oldest hook was found in the East end of the island of Timor by archaeologist Sue O'Connor from the Australian National University.
Previous research has shown that humans are capable of exploring the ocean since 50 thousand years ago. But the discovery of fishing equipment O'Connor showed pre-history found in the island of Timor suggest that humans were able to fish since 42 thousand years ago.
Hook from the Pleistocene era made from shells found in East Timor is the oldest fishing equipment ever found in the world. Besides hook, O'Connor and his team found the remains of a fish that has been caught in the man's pre-history as tuna skeleton in the cave Jerimalai, East Timor island.
"It is possible people caught the tuna in the trenches that stretched around the cave Jerimalai," O'Connor said as quoted from Live Science.
In addition to the hook, the cave was first discovered in 2005, also found spear, shells of marine animals, the remains of fish, turtles, snakes, rats, bats and birds as well as about 10 thousand artifacts made of stone.
Overall diversity of animals on the island of Timor not so much. This is why according to O'Connor, early humans in East've tried to fishing as a way to get groceries.
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