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 ...

A simple stick, shaped by ancient hands roughly 430,000 years ago, is rewriting what researchers thought they knew about early technology. Carved from wood and preserved in Greek sediments, it now ...

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, ...

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, ...

A digging stick and a tiny tool of unknown purpose are among the oldest handheld wooden tools ever found. The objects, from 430,000 years ago, indicate early human ancestors were using wood for tools, ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Two artifacts found at a lake shore in Greece are the oldest wooden tools to be uncovered so far and date back 430 ...

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. Subscribe to read this ...

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, ...