Posted on 09/21/2023 8:29:38 AM PDT by FarCenter
Half a million years ago, earlier than was previously thought possible, humans were building structures made of wood, according to new research by a team from the University of Liverpool and Aberystwyth University.
The research, published in the journal Nature, reports on the excavation of well-preserved wood at the archaeological site of Kalambo Falls, Zambia, dating back at least 476,000 years and predating the evolution of our own species, Homo sapiens.
The excavation team uncovering the wooden wedge
Expert analysis of stone tool cut-marks on the wood show that these early humans shaped and joined two large logs to make a structure, probably the foundation of a platform or part of a dwelling.
This is the earliest evidence from anywhere in the world of the deliberate crafting of logs to fit together. Until now, evidence for the human use of wood was limited to its use for making fire, digging sticks and spears.
Wood is rarely found in such ancient sites as it usually rots and disappears, but at Kalambo Falls permanently high water levels preserved the wood.
Researchers uncover wooden artefacts on the banks of the Kalambo River in Zambia, near where the oldest-known use of wood in construction was found
This discovery challenges the prevailing view that Stone Age humans were nomadic. At Kalambo Falls these humans not only had a perennial source of water, but the forest around them provided enough food to enable them to settle and make structures.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.liverpool.ac.uk ...
Call me stupid but wouldn’t a tree be the oldest wooden structure?
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They found Adam and Eve’s house?
Noah’s Ark ?
That's buff right up!.............
Damn...It was 426,000 years ago. Can’t they get anything right
oldest wooden structure: It’s too easy...
“predating the evolution of our own species, Homo sapiens. “
Blah... What they think they know.
Wow! Nothing in nature could have produced that! So precise in it’s craftmanship.
Bulletin! Biden claims he built it.
Winner.
476,000 years???? Maybe.
I think it’s great that archaeologists go around digging things up all their lives “sponsored” by some lefty University looking for taxpayer grants to do “further study on 476,000 year old pieces of wood.
I just don’t believe, thanks to Democrats and RINOS and the FBI and DOJ, that they can tell a piece of wood is 476,000 years old.
Can’t believe that 470,000 years ago somebody carved “Jinkbo love Mukalla” into that wood.
It is obvious that it was the stranded crew of the battlestar Galatica who made this.
Thanks SteveH for the ping and thanks algore for the link below.
In Zambia? Where architecture and engineering remained at that level of sophistication until the colonizers arrived?
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