US EditionNeanderthals carried travel toolkits when they went bear hunting
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A recent investigation found, in southern Europe, an extremely old set of instruments.What they are, what they used them for, and why their finding is so important.
Neanderthals carried travel toolkits when they went bear hunting
New analysis of tools found in an Alpine cave suggests Neanderthals weren't just making tools wherever they happened to be — they were packing for trips. Researchers at the University of Ferrara examined 16 flint and radiolarite artifacts discovered among bear remains at Caverna Generosa in the Alps, and found something curious: plenty of resharpening marks, but no chips or flakes, reports PhysOrg. — Read the rest The post Neanderthals carried t…
In Greece, two 430,000-year-old wooden artifacts were discovered, making them the earliest known tools from this material. One of them still riddles the researchers.
Mundo, 28 Jan 2026 (ATB Digital) .- A 430,000-year-old mystery emerges from the mud: who used these wooden tools? Two artifacts found on the shore of a lake in Greece are the oldest wooden tools discovered so far and date from 430,000 years ago. One is a thin stick approximately 80 centimeters long that could have been used to dig into the mud. The other is a smaller, mysterious piece of willow wood or poplar that was held with its hand and coul…
When one imagines prehistory, one immediately thinks of the stone age. But it's a survivor error: the stone remains, the wood rots. An exceptional discovery made in Greece has just rewritten the history books. Archaeologists have discovered 430,000-year-old wooden tools, pushing back the previous [...]
Ancient Discovery: Earliest Wooden Hand Tool Found, Dating Back 430,000 Years
Archaeologists have made a groundbreaking discovery, unearthing the “oldest known hand-held wooden tool” at a Middle Pleistocene site in Marathusa 1, Greece. Impression of a Marathusa 1 female artist crafting a digging stick using small stone tools from an alder trunk. Image credit: G. Prieto / K. Harvati. According to Professor Katerina Herberty from the [...] The post Ancient Discovery: Earliest Wooden Hand Tool Found, Dating Back 430,000 Year…
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