Archaeologists unearth world's oldest wooden structure, 'extraordinary' discovery said to be 476,000 years old
"The team’s recovery of additional wooden tools at the site (dated between 390,000 and 324,000 years old) further suggests that the area around this 772 foot waterfall was a popular spot for prehistoric humans"
Archaeologists discovered the world's oldest wooden structure, said to be almost half a million years old.
A team of archaeologists unearthed a simple wood structure along a riverbank in Africa. At the dig site, researchers found two bush willow tree logs that appeared to have been manipulated by ancient humans approximately 476,000 years ago. The archaeology discovery makes it older than homo sapiens – believed to have emerged around 300,000 years ago. ---More...
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