300,000-Year-Old Wooden Tools Discovered in China
Archaeologists have unearthed an assemblage of 35 wooden tools — digging sticks and small, complete, hand-held pointed tools — at the Early Paleolithic site of Gantangqing in southwestern China. This discovery reveals that hominins who used these tools crafted the wooden implements not for hunting, but for digging and processing plants. The wooden tools found…