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Archaeologists say Stone Age humans were smarter than previously believed after discovering what scientists say is the earliest evidence of wood being used in construction, dating back almost half a ...

(Reuters) - Along the banks of the Kalambo River in Zambia near Africa's second-highest waterfall, archaeologists have excavated two logs of the large-fruited bushwillow tree that were notched, shaped ...

(CN) — Prehistoric humans may have been building with wood and establishing permanent settlements for longer than archaeologists had thought, according to a research team investigating the discovery ...

Archaeologists from Europe and Africa have uncovered the oldest wood structure ever discovered, dating back almost half a million years — meaning an unknown species of hominins, predating us homo ...

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 ...

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(CNN) — Archaeologists have unearthed the oldest known wooden structure, and it’s almost half a million years old. The simple structure — found along a riverbank in Zambia — is made up of two ...