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Archaeologists discover half a million-year-old wooden structure -- and it's not built by Homo sapiens (www.zmescience.com)

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The researchers don’t know which ancient human species made the structure and the tools, but it’s unlikely to have been Homo sapiens. The earliest fossils of Homo sapiens found so far date from around 300,000 years ago and were found in Israel, Dull told CNN. He believes the people who made the structure were cognitively sophisticated and it would be very exciting to figure out who constructed this.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

above a 235-meter waterfall on the border between Zambia and the Rukwa Region of Tanzania, at the edge of Lake Tanganyika

this must have been an awesome sight at the time.. they were real masters of their environment from a strategic position like that.. tremendous access to resources, and perhaps easily defensible against other hostile hominids.. at least the best view around, which is worth a lot in the Stone Age both economically and spiritually..

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I imagine it may not have been 235m tall 500,000 years ago