Wim LustenhouwerThis handout picture released by the journal Nature on December 3, 2014 shows the fossil Pseudodon shell with the engraving made by Homo erectus from Trinil, Indonesia
Paris (AFP) - Anthropologists on Wednesday said they had found the earliest engraving in human history on a fossilised mollusc shell some 500,000 years old, unearthed in colonial-era Indonesia.
The zigzag scratching, together with evidence that these shells were used as a tool, should prompt a rethink about the mysterious early human called Homo erectus, they said.
