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Oldest Handheld Wooden Tools Found at 430,000-Year-Old Site in Greece

Exceptional preservation at Marathousa 1 enabled researchers to identify deliberate shaping, dating the tools to about 430,000 years.

Malawi Pyre Dating to 9,500 Years Ago Is Africa’s Earliest Intentional Cremation

Kenyan Site Shows 300,000 Years of Oldowan Toolmaking Through Climate Shifts

Earliest European Blue Pigment Confirmed on 13,000-Year-Old German Artifact

Indigo Molecule Found on 34,000-Year-Old Tools Points to Early Plant Processing in Georgia

300,000-Year-Old Wooden Tools from China Overturn East Asian Paleolithic Narratives

Neanderthals’ 125,000-Year-Old “Fat Factory” Confirmed as First Large-Scale Bone-Grease Operation

Poland’s Mammoth Tusk Boomerang Dated to 40,000 Years Ago

Study Dates Earliest European Whale Bone Tools to 20,000 Years Ago

Spanish Pebble Yields 43,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Face Abstraction, Fingerprint