Rare 300,000-year-old wooden tools found in China reveal diet secrets of early humans - Until now, only two discoveries have been made of wooden tools from this period ...

Humans have been making and using wooden tools for over one million years, but since they decompose quickly, they rarely ...

These exceptionally well-preserved objects demonstrate ingenious adaptation to a subtropical environment. The discoveries at the Gantangqing site in Yunnan shed light on a key period of the Middle ...

The hominins who lived at Gantangqing lived a heavily plant-based subsistence lifestyle. They had access to meat, and also ...

In the hills of southwestern China, near the ancient shoreline of Fuxian Lake, a major archaeological discovery has reshaped ...

A joint team of archaeologists, chronologists, geologists, and paleontologists have successfully dated a hoard of wooden ...

The 300,000 year-old tools show that hominins in East Asia made planned foraging trips to lakeshores and designed instruments for specific purposes.

The wooden tools were used to help split more wood into planks, ... Construction Workers Dug Up a Sewer Line—and Found 3,800-Year-Old Tools. Tim Newcomb. June 19, 2025 at 5:30 AM.

A multidisciplinary research team has announced the discovery of 300,000-year-old well-preserved wooden artifacts at the Gantangqing site in Southwest China's Yunnan province, presenting the earliest ...

Newly uncovered wooden tools from Pleistocene China reveal complex, plant-focused technology far earlier than expected in ...