What a crazy week for old things discovered this statue at Göbekli Tepe and the 400,000 year-old notched lumber beams in Zambia.
Question - how can they prove that someone in more recent times didn't notch more ancient wood?
The changes wrought in the material by sun exposure and subsequent changes over time in the dark are strongly repeatable.
Very interesting
I love how in other words you could also say “played with lincoln logs” :)
this is what astonished me. I somehow depicted our ancestors or relatives to be purely hunter/gatherers without the means (and will) to build complex wooden structures.
>I was amazed to know that woodworking was such a deep-rooted tradition