Half-million-year-old wooden structure unearthed
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Ancient timber preserved in a riverbed suggests humans were building wooden structures 500,000 years ago.

The discovery of ancient wooden logs in the banks of a river in Zambia has changed archaeologists' understanding of ancient human life.

Researchers found evidence the wood had been used to build a structure almost half a million years ago.

The findings, published in the journal Nature, suggest...

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