Oldest wooden tools yet unearthed found in southern Greece

Artist’s concept of a paleolithic woman producing a digging stick from a small alder tree trunk, the kind of wood used for the Marathousa digging stick. Early humans shaped the wood with a small stone tool. Use-wear analysis of such stone tools at Marathousa 1 show evidence of woodworking. Image via University of Reading/ G. Prieto/ K. Harvati.

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A pair of artifacts dug out of an ancient lakebed...