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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 430,000-year-old wooden tool from Greece, top, that may have been used for digging and various angles of the tool, below.

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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, ...

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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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...