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This simple log structure may be the oldest example of early humans building with wood

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Researchers have uncovered a simple structure from the Stone Age that may be the oldest evidence yet of early humans building with wood.
Researchers have uncovered a simple structure from the Stone Age that may be the oldest evidence yet of early humans building with wood.

The construction is basic: a pair of overlapping logs, fitted together with a notch. It’s nearly half a million years old and provides a rare look at how ancient human relatives were working with wood and changing their environments, authors wrote in a study published Wednesday in Nature.
«It took me a while before I appreciated what we were looking at,» said study author Larry Barham, an archaeologist at the University of Liverpool. «It didn’t look very nice, to be honest. But it is much more complex than I thought.»
Barham and his team dug up the log structure—plus a handful of wooden tools—from a riverbed site that sits above a waterfall in Zambia. They think the crossed logs could have been the base for a bigger structure like a walkway or a platform.

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