(bbc) Half-million-year-old wooden structure unearthed in Zambia

[Tomasz Rola]

(So, who did this... - TR)

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-66846772

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Further analysis confirmed the logs were about 476,000 years old.

Team member Perrice Nkombwe, from the Livingstone Museum, in Zambia,
said: "I was amazed to know that woodworking was such a deep-rooted
tradition.

(...)

One of the oldest wooden discoveries was a 400,000-year-old spear in
prehistoric sands at Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, in 1911.

(...)

It is also unclear what species of ancient human - or hominid - built
it.

No bones have been found at this site so far.

And the timber is much older than the earliest modern human - or Homo
sapien - fossils, which are about 315,000 years old.

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[spudb...@aol.com]

Thomasz, do you think this simply may be a mistaken pile up of logs (fallen trees) that may have been in a massive, ancient, flood; and we are fooled into thinking that the ancients did this? Sometimes flooding can produce this effect. 

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[Tomasz Rola]

On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 12:11:24AM +0000, 'spudb...@aol.com' via Everything List wrote:
> Thomasz, do you think this simply may be a mistaken pile up of logs
> (fallen trees) that may have been in a massive, ancient, flood; and
> we are fooled into thinking that the ancients did this? Sometimes
> flooding can produce this effect.

I suppose the researchers will do the nitpicking for me :-) However,
they claim that logs were carved, with marks of fire and tools, and
the marks were placed in the right place to make logs into
structure built without nails.

What does it mean? Not enough data, I think.

A measurement method seems to be already well grounded in archeology,
and from the description, quite accurate.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminescence_dating

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