NEW YORK (AP) — Researchers have uncovered a simple structure from the Stone Age that may be the oldest evidence yet of early humans building with wood.
But it is much more complex than I thought.”Barham and his team dug up the log structure — plus a handful of wooden tools — from a riverbed site that sits above a waterfall in Zambia.
They think the crossed logs could have been the base for a bigger structure like a walkway or a platform.
The log structure was made at least 476,000 years ago, while the wood tools are slightly younger, under 400,000 years old.
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