Gold in the woods, celebrating the coming long winter's nap in style.
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Illustration for birdmoss
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476,000-Year-Old Wooden Structure Unearthed in Zambia
Archaeologists have found an ancient wooden structure at the archaeological site of Kalambo Falls in Zambia. This structure — dated to about 476,000 years ago — has no known parallels in the African or Eurasian Paleolithic and may represent the earliest use of wood in construction.
Wooden artifacts rarely survive from the Early Paleolithic as they require exceptional conditions for preservation.
Therefore, archaeologists have limited information about when and how hominins used this basic raw material or how Paleolithic humans structured their environments.
“Our find has changed how I think about our early ancestors,” said University of Liverpool’s Professor Larry Barham.
“Forget the label ‘Stone Age,’ look at what these people were doing: they made something new, and large, from wood.” Read more.
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Brückenwurzel | bridge root by Michael Lumme
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