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British and African archaeologists have discovered evidence of the world’s oldest human-built structure, built by an extinct species of humans from half a million years ago. It was unearthed in ...

Two interlocking logs, with intentionally shaped ends and a notch in the upper log allowing their attachment at right angles (reminiscent of children’s “Lincoln Log” toys) have been discovered by ...

Please note that this release is strictly embargoed until 11:00 ET and 16:00 BST on Wednesday 20 September Half a million years ago, earlier than was previously thought possible, humans were building ...

Archaeologists excavating the prehistoric wooden structure at Kalambo Falls in Zambia - Copyright Liverpool University/AFP Larry BARHAM Archaeologists excavating the ...

Scientists have unearthed logs in Africa that are nearly a half-million years old, the remnants of large wooden structures crafted by our early ancestors. By Carl Zimmer Nearly half a million years ...

Archaeologists in 2023 announced the discovery of the oldest known wooden structure at Kalambo Falls in Zambia. The discovery dates to nearly 476,000 years ago, long before Homo sapiens ever appeared.

Tanzania — TANZANIANS love a good adventure, and Kalambo Falls is like the country's best-kept secret-well, until now. Situated in the southern highlands, on the border with Zambia, Kalambo Falls is ...

Some 500,000 years ago in central Africa, ancient human relatives chopped down trees and transformed the wood into digging tools, wedges and what might just be the world’s earliest-known wooden ...

(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 ...