430,000-year-old well-preserved wooden tools are the oldest ever found

Researchers working in southern Greece have identified the oldest known handheld wooden tools, dated to about 430,000 years ago. The objects came from Marathousa 1, a site in the Megalopolis Basin in the central Peloponnese. The area once held a lakeshore during the Middle Pleistocene, a period between about 774,000 and 129,000 years ago...

More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/01/430000-year-old-wooden-tools-marathousa/

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430,000-year-old well-preserved wooden tools are the oldest ever found

Researchers working in southern Greece have identified the oldest known handheld wooden tools, dated to about 430,000 years ago. The objects came from Marathousa 1, a site in the Megalopolis Basin in the central Peloponnese. The area once held a lakeshore during the Middle Pleistocene, a period between about 774,000 and 129,000 years ago...

More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/01/430000-year-old-wooden-tools-marathousa/

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#archaeology #pleistocene