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Two wooden tools dated to 430,000 years ago were found in Greece, pushing back known wooden tool use by 40,000 years and showing early hominin material culture.
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In Greece, tools were found that are almost 500,000 years old. The special thing is that they are made of wood.
430,000-Year-Old Wooden Tools Found in Greece - Archaeology Magazine
Small wooden tool MARATHOUSA, GREECE—Science News reports that 430,000-year-old wooden tools likely crafted by Neanderthals or Homo heidelbergensis individuals have been discovered in Greece by a team of researchers led by Annemieke Milks of the University of Reading. The site, which is now a coal mine, is located in the central Peloponnese Peninsula. The rare wooden tools were recovered from waterlogged ground 100 feet beneath the surface, in a…
430,000-year-old tool found in Greece
Archeologists found a 430,000-year-old tool, and it isn't Rupert Murdoch. The artifact, one of two found at a lake shore in Greece, are the oldest wooden implements ever identified. Described as a "spindly stick" about 2 and half feet long, it could have been used to dig. — Read the rest The post 430,000-year-old tool found in Greece appeared first on Boing Boing.
Archaeologists have discovered unique wooden tools in Greece made 430 thousand years ago. These are the oldest surviving samples of hand-made wooden tools, and the most interesting thing is that they were not made by Homo sapiens.
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