Ancient timber preserved in a riverbed suggests humans were building wooden structures 500,000 years ago.
Half-million-year-old wooden structure unearthed in Zambia
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-66846772
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-66846772
Ancient timber preserved in a riverbed suggests humans were building wooden structures 500,000 years ago.
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Seudo@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Be exciting to see what we can learn but kind of goes without saying. Much easier to imagine turning some wood into a shelter than napping a bit of flint into a hand axe. Which we have been doing for a million years.