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Who were the earliest carpenters? 📌 The pair of interlocking logs joined by an intentionally cut notch ⬆️ was unearthed beneath a bank of Zambia’s Kalambo River by archaeologists. 📌 Dating to nearly half a million years ago, this discovery radically changed scholars’ views of the capabilities of people of the past. 📌 Researchers believe the logs may have formed part of a walkway or the foundation of a platform built over wetlands. 📌 The 476,000-year-old log structure was likely the handiwork of the archaic human species Homo heidelbergensis. 📌 Scientists haven’t seen archaic humans manipulating their environment on such a large scale before. 📌 At the same site, the team also unearthed stone axes and 4️⃣ wooden tools – a digging stick, a wedge-shaped object, a notched branch, and a flattened log ⬆️ – dating to 390,000-324,000 years ago. ℹ️ Prior to this discovery, the oldest known surviving wooden structures were built by people living around 11,000 years ago. Subscribe- t.me/askmenow