Two wooden tools found in southern Greece are 430,000 years old, a new study claims, making them the oldest handheld wooden tools known by 40,000 years. Given how much more likely wooden tools are to ...

Archaeologists in Greece have discovered 430,000-year-old handheld wooden tools, the oldest surviving examples of their kind in the world, a new study finds. The two tools, found on the Peloponnese ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 430,000-year-old wooden tool from Greece, top, that may have been used for digging and various angles of the tool, below.

Building the human story based on a few artefacts is tricky – particularly for wooden tools that don’t preserve well, or cave ...

GANTANGQING, CHINA—Humans have been making and using wooden tools for over one million years, but since they decompose quickly, they rarely survive in the archaeological record. However, according to ...

Kat Thompson is the audience editor of Eater’s Southern California/Southwest region. My wooden spatula has been through the wringer. It’s what I reach for when I need to scrape and deglaze a pan, it ...