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Science News Roundup: Zambia find shows humans have built with wood for 476,000 years

Science News Roundup: Zambia find shows humans have built with wood for 476,000 years
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Zambia find shows humans have built with wood for 476,000 years

Along the banks of the Kalambo River in Zambia near Africa's second-highest waterfall, archaeologists have excavated two logs of the large-fruited bushwillow tree that were notched, shaped and joined nearly half a million years ago. The logs, modified using stone tools, appear to have been part of a framework for a structure, a conclusion that contradicts the notion humans at that time simply roamed the landscape hunting and gathering resources. "Not only did the working of trees require considerable skill, the right tools and planning, the effort involved suggests that the makers were staying in the location for extended periods whereas we have always had a model of Stone Age people as nomadic," Barham added.

World s oldest wooden structure discovered in Zambia – Digital Journal

Archaeologists excavating the prehistoric wooden structure at Kalambo Falls in Zambia - Copyright Liverpool University/AFP Larry BARHAMJuliette CollenArchaeologists said on Wednesday they have unearthed the oldest wooden structure ever discovered, dating from nearly half a million years ago, which suggests that our ancestors may have been more advanced than previously thought. The exceptionally well-preserved wooden […]

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