Half a million years ago, on the banks of the Kalambo River in Zambia, a group of humans began a new construction. We don’t know what they were making, or why. We do know that, using stone tools, they did something both unremarkable and revolutionary: they joined together some logs.
In doing so, they have forced us to rethink our view of our Stone Age ancestors. This discovery, published in the journal Nature, is believed to be the earliest human-made wooden structure ever found.
Built earlier than had been thought possible, the construction was a surprise to the archaeologists who uncovered it. “This find has changed how I think about our early ancestors,” Larry Barham, an archaeology professor from the University of Liverpool, said. “Forget
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