These 90,000-Year-Old Wooden Tools Weren't Even Made by Humans

[Judi Lynn]

Some of the oldest tools ever discovered.

MICHELLE STARR 9 APR 2018
Archaeological excavations in Northern Spain have turned up something incredible. Two wooden tools that, at 90,000 years old, are the oldest of their kind ever found.

What's especially cool is that these tools weren't made and used by Homo sapiens, but our older cousins - Neanderthals.

The Aranbaltza site on the Iberian Peninsula hosted several Neanderthal occupations over the millennia, according to researchers from the Spanish Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH).

Included in the sediment were two wooden tools. Luminescence dating on the mud in which they were found, dated these items back tens of thousands of years, to the Middle Palaeolithic, a time in which Neanderthals inhabited Europe.

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https://www.sciencealert.com/neanderthal-wooden-tools-iberian-peninsula-spain-90-000-years-old