Archaeologists 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.
The discovery may sound humdrum but, according to the study authors, it’s nearly half a million years old and provides a rare look at how ancient human relatives worked with wood and their changing environments.
Writing in a study published Wednesday in Nature, the authors said the construction has "no known parallels" in the archaeological record.
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