At the western edge of the Nile valley in Egypt about 200 kilometers north of Luxor is a cluster of eight Upper Paleolithic sites, containing evidence of chert mining activities beginning about 40,000 years ago: and a complete skeleton which is key to the human migrations out of Africa and into Eurasia.
Nazlet Khater 4 is a site with extensive evidence for Upper Paleolithic mining, with trenches, shafts and excavated galleries. Stone tools from the site are part of a blade technology with clear ties to that of the European Upper Paleolithic.
Nazlet Khater 2 is a complete human skeleton of an early modern human, buried some 40,000 years ago, who represents a hunter-gatherer miner, and one of the Kalahari desert hunter-gatherers who migrated out of Africa to populate Europe.
All of which is why you should know this site.
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