Half-Million-Year-Old Wooden Structure Found — and Homo Sapiens Did Not Build It

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Ancient joined timbers show pre-sapiens hominins could build far earlier than once thought.

It Was Found at Kalambo Falls, Zambia

The Structure Dates Back at Least 476,000 Years

Two Logs Were Deliberately Joined

Stone Tools Left the Decisive Marks

Its Purpose Is Still Uncertain

Homo Sapiens Arrived Much Later

The Builder’s Species Remains Unknown

Waterlogged Sediments Saved the Evidence

Other Wooden Tools Revealed a Broader Technology

The Find Rewrites the “Stone Age” Picture

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A discovery can look deceptively simple while forcing archaeologists to reconsider an entire period of human development. The importance lies not only in what survived, but in the planning and technical choices preserved within it.

The evidence reveals a kind of behaviour rarely visible so deep in prehistory. It also raises a difficult question about which early human relative possessed the skill to create it.

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