Researchers believe the ancient wood, found in Greece, is actually evidence of the earliest hand-held wooden tool usage in ...

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

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

Two artifacts found at a lake shore in Greece are the oldest wooden tools to be uncovered so far and date back 430,000 years.

In the shadow of a coal mine in southern Greece, archaeologists discovered the oldest known handheld wooden tools ever found.

Learn how two wooden tools discovered in Greece mark the earliest known evidence of humans shaping wood, moving the timeline ...

A trove of rare 300,000-year-old wooden tools unearthed in south-west China reveals that early humans in the region may have relied heavily on underground plants like roots and tubers for sustenance.

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

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

A simple stick, shaped by ancient hands roughly 430,000 years ago, is rewriting what researchers thought they knew about ...

The earliest known examples of wooden hand-held tools, believed to be 430,000 years old, have been discovered by researchers ...