430,000-Year-Old Wood Tools Found in Greece Reframe Early Human Tech Timeline

Researchers at Marathousa 1 in central Greece uncovered two wooden tools dating to about 430,000 years ago, with clear signs of deliberate shaping and use, representing the oldest known wooden tools and pushing back the record of wood-based technology by roughly 40,000 years, offering new insight into Middle Pleistocene behavior and early human craftsmanship in Southeastern Europe.