The finding, along with the discovery of a 500,000-year-old hammer made of bone, indicates that our human ancestors were ...

Archaeologists have found the oldest-known surviving examples of handheld wooden tools.

An archaeological discovery of two artifacts in southern Greece are the oldest known handheld wooden tools fashioned by early human ancestors.

Finds from Greece and Britain suggest early hominins were shaping wood and bone with far more intention and ingenuity than ...

Archaeologists working in southern Greece have identified wooden tools that appear to be the oldest of their kind ever found.

Neanderthals were even better craftsmen than thought, a new analysis of 300,000-year-old wooden tools has revealed. By Franz Lidz In 1836, Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, a Danish antiquarian, brought ...

Ancient wooden tools found at a site in Gantangqing in southwestern China are approximately 300,000 years old, new dating has shown. Discovered during excavations carried out in 2014–15 and 2018–19, ...

Used by our early human ancestors around 430,000 years ago, the earliest known hand-held wooden tools have been uncovered by ...

Archaeologists uncovered 430,000-year-old wooden tools in Greece, the oldest ever found, offering new insights into early human technology.

Professor, Environmental Futures Research Centre, School of Science, University of Wollongong The excavation, curation, and research of the Gantangqing site were supported by National Cultural ...

Two unassuming pieces of wood recovered from a prehistoric lakeshore in southern Greece have become a headline-grabbing rarity - the oldest known handheld wooden tools, dated to around 430,000 years ...