US EditionEarliest hand-held wooden tools found in Greece date back 430,000 years
Two wooden tools crafted from alder and willow or poplar wood were found at Marathousa 1, pushing back known human wooden tool use by at least 40,000 years.
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Greek archaeologists have discovered 330,000 years old wooden rings, the oldest copies of this type in the world. The two rings, found in Peloponez, southern Greece, were created by an unknown species of man who lived before modern people.
Earliest hand-held wooden tools found in Greece date back 430,000 years
An international team has discovered the earliest known hand-held wooden tools used by humans. A study jointly led by Professor Katerina Harvati from the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of Tübingen and Dr. Annemieke Milks at the University of Reading describes discoveries from the Marathousa 1 site, in Greece's central Peloponnese, dating back 430,000 years.
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Researchers have identified the oldest known wood tools, associated with a drop-down site of high-pressure elephants, in the archaeological site of Marathousa 1, Greece. Artefacts date for about 430 thousand years, the period of the Middle Pleistocene, and significantly expand the record of the use of wood-based technologies by humans. The site collects evidence of human activities in a glass shelter of the marine isotope phase MIS12, including …
430,000-year-old wooden tools excavated in Greece are the oldest ever found
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