Archaeologists found a 476,000-year-old wooden structure. No one knows who built it.
“[We found] two interlocking logs joined transversely by an intentionally cut notch,” Barham and his colleagues wrote in a 2023 study published in Nature. “This construction has no known parallels in the African or Eurasian Palaeolithic.” Older worked wood does exist, with the earliest known example being a fragment of polished plank from the Acheulean site … Read more