The earliest known hand-held wooden tools, used by our early human ancestors around 430,000 years ago, have been uncovered by researchers at an archeological site in Greece. One is made from the trunk ...

Thousands of handcrafted antique tools that a retired woodworking teacher spent decades collecting but never used are worth more than $35,000. Roy Turnage, 88, spent years adding to his haul that ...

The earliest known examples of wooden hand-held tools, believed to be 430,000 years old, have been discovered by researchers in Greece’s central Peloponnese. The find, led by a research team from the ...

The site of 'Marathousa 1' in the central Peloponnese Peninsula has yielded various stone fragments, animal bones with artificial cut marks, and elephant tusks. This area was a lakeshore until about ...

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Ancient wooden tools found at a site in Gantangqing in southwestern China are approximately 300,000 years old, new dating has shown. Discovered during excavations carried out in 2014–15 and 2018–19, ...

Neanderthals were even better craftsmen than thought, a new analysis of 300,000-year-old wooden tools has revealed. By Franz Lidz In 1836, Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, a Danish antiquarian, brought ...

New insights into ancient East Asian hominins have arrived due to several tools detected in the region. These tools were found buried in oxygen-poor clay sediments on the shores of an ancient lake in ...

Ancient Greek wooden tools challenge views on early technology. Bone hammer from England shows early humans used organic materials skillfully Early hominins had advanced toolmaking skills before Homo ...

A trove of rare 300,000-year-old wooden tools unearthed in south-west China reveals that early humans in the region may have relied heavily on underground plants like roots and tubers for sustenance.

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