At Kalambo Falls Site B in Zambia (not "Columbo Falls"), researchers found two deliberately shaped, interlocking wooden logs in deposits at least 476,000 years old. The Nature study says the find predates the earliest Homo sapiens fossils by more than 100,000 years and interprets the shaping and joining as evidence of planning and organised construction. The video argues that the behaviour appeared before the "modern brain" story predicts, suggesting that intelligent behaviour emerged earlier than traditionally understood.
476,000-year-old wooden structure at Kalambo Falls shows early planning
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- Kalambo Falls Site B in Zambia yielded two deliberately shaped, interlocked wooden logs from Acheulean deposits dated to at least 476,000 years ago.
- The 2023 Nature study says the find predates the earliest fossil evidence of Homo sapiens by more than 100,000 years.
- Researchers interpret the manufacture and interlinking of the logs as evidence of sophisticated planning and organised construction.
- The video argues that the behaviour preceded the emergence of the "modern brain", suggesting that intelligent behaviour emerged earlier than the traditional narrative allows.
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Kalambo structureen.wikipedia.org
The Kalambo structure is a Lower Palaeolithic wooden structure, Discovered at the site of Kalambo Falls, Zambia, it is currently the oldest known wooden ...
Evidence for the earliest structural use of wood at least ...nature.com
by L Barham · 2023 · Cited by 154 — At Kalambo Falls, wood was recovered from Acheulean horizons in the ... These ancient whittled logs could be the earliest known wooden structure.
Oldest wooden structures almost 500000 years oldhumanorigins.si.edu
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Archaeologists discover world's oldest wooden structurepopular-archaeology.com
The research, published in the journal Nature, reports on the excavation of well-preserved wood at the archaeological site of Kalambo Falls, ...
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