Ancient Mystery Unveiled: The 430,000-Year-Old Wooden Tool That Rewrites Human History
As such, the wooden tools unearthed at the site are an astounding find, one that rewrites the history of human toolmaking. And the conditions at this site, which preserved these relics for almost half a million years, could also mean that there are other exciting discoveries just waiting to be made.
“[The tools] represent both the use of expedient larger handheld tools as well as a much smaller, likely finger-held wooden tool, which is uniquely small for the Pleistocene, expanding known functional purposes of early wood technologies,” the researchers remarked in their study. “Moreover, they highlight the Megalopolis Basin’s exceptional preservation conditions and its role in understanding the evolution of hominin behavior.”
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