The earliest known hand-held wooden tools, used by our early human ancestors around 430,000 years ago, have been uncovered by researchers at an archeological site in Greece. One is made from the trunk ...

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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 in Greece’s central Peloponnese. The find, led by a research team from the ...

The finding, along with the discovery of a 500,000-year-old hammer made of bone, indicates that our human ancestors were making tools even earlier than archaeologists thought. By Franz Lidz Early ...