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Ancient timber preserved in a riverbed suggests humans were building wooden structures 500,000 years ago.

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[–] Seudo 1 points 1 year ago

Be exciting to see what we can learn but kind of goes without saying. Much easier to imagine turning some wood into a shelter than napping a bit of flint into a hand axe. Which we have been doing for a million years.