Shaped by ancient humans, 430,000-year-old wooden tools are the oldest ever found

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

These 160,000-Year-Old Tools Are Rewriting Human History

Ancient tools from central China are flipping the script, revealing early humans were far more innovative than history once gave them credit for.
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Three Billion Years Ago, Mars May Have Been Half Covered by a Sea the Size of the Arctic Ocean

“The presence of liquid water [on Mars] is a broad topic that includes rains, rivers, lakes, as well as oceans,” says Ezat ...
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160,000-year-old sophisticated stone tools discovered in China may not have been made by Homo sapiens

Archaeologists have found the oldest known evidence of hafted tools in East Asia, and they challenge a previously held ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Archaeologists Unearthed a 430,000-Year-Old Stick. After Careful Analysis, They Say It Could Be the Oldest Wooden Tool Ever Discovered

Found in southern Greece, the stick was one of two wooden artifacts that appear to have been shaped intentionally, according ...