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 ...

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The discovery was made in southern Greece, where two objects - thought to be around 430,000 years old - were found.

Researchers have found two wooden tools crafted and used by humans at a site some 430,000 years ago. One tool is made of ...

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Photograph by N. Thompson, copyright K. Harvati. Small wooden tool which is a new wood tool type used by humans, documented ...

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The earliest known examples of wooden hand-held tools, believed to be 430,000 years old, have been discovered by researchers ...

A simple stick, shaped by ancient hands roughly 430,000 years ago, is rewriting what researchers thought they knew about ...