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 ...

The Stone Age may have to be renamed following the discovery that early humans were building wooden structures nearly half a million years ago, archaeologists have said. Two planks of worked wood ...

Ancient humans were building large wooden structures – possibly houses – almost half a million years ago. The discovery, the earliest evidence of wooden construction, suggests that some ...

The earliest signs of wooden structures were discovered by a group of archeologists in Zambia. These structures are about 500,000 years old, the scientists responsible for the find said.

The ancient wooden structure was unearthed during excavations in Heddernheim—a district of the city of Frankfurt in western Germany—in 2023. The structure has now been completely recovered and ...