Someone carved a notch to lock two logs together—half a million years before Homo sapiens.

Nearly half a million years ago, ancient humans at Kalambo Falls in Zambia shaped and fitted together large pieces of wood to ...

In a recent study, rare wooden structures from the Roman Empire were investigated in a wide range of ways using NMR methods. These methods, widely known for their use in hospital MRI scans to produce ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Archaeologists have discovered an "exceptionally well-preserved" wooden ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation Archaeologists in Germany thought they had found the remains of a ...

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The find didn't look like much at first – basically a log, lying crosswise over another log. "It didn't look particularly exciting," says Larry Barham, professor of archaeology at the University of ...

To most people, complex technologies separate modern humans from their ancestors who lived in the Stone Age, thousands or hundreds of thousands of years ago. In today's fast changing world, older ...

Scientists have unearthed logs in Africa that are nearly a half-million years old, the remnants of large wooden structures crafted by our early ancestors. By Carl Zimmer See more of our coverage in ...

An earthquake in central Myanmar unearthed an ancient structure that may be part of a royal “water palace,” experts say. Previously, only a staircase was visible. Now, after the earthquake, a railing, ...