{"id":173375,"date":"2023-10-03T14:23:48","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T19:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/archaeologists-unearth-oldest-known-wooden-structure-in-the-world"},"modified":"2023-10-03T14:23:48","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T19:23:48","slug":"archaeologists-unearth-oldest-known-wooden-structure-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/archaeologists-unearth-oldest-known-wooden-structure-in-the-world","title":{"rendered":"Archaeologists unearth oldest known wooden structure in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/archaeologists-unearth-oldest-known-wooden-structure-in-the-world.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Archaeologists have unearthed the oldest known wooden structure, and it\u2019s almost half a million years old.<\/p>\n<p>The simple structure \u2014 found along a riverbank in Zambia \u2014 is made up of two interlocking logs, with a notch deliberately crafted into the upper piece to allow them to fit together at right angles, according to a new study of cut marks made by stone tools.<\/p>\n<p>The earliest known wood artifact is a 780,000-year-old fragment of polished plank found at the site of Gesher Benot Ya\u2019aqov, Israel, while the oldest wooden tools for foraging and hunting on record \u2014 unearthed in Europe \u2014 date back about 400,000 years. It\u2019s thought that Neanderthals made structures from bones or stalactites around 175,000 years ago.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Researchers have unearthed the oldest known wooden structure in Zambia, and it\u2019s almost half a million years old, according to a new study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archaeologists have unearthed the oldest known wooden structure, and it\u2019s almost half a million years old. The simple structure \u2014 found along a riverbank in Zambia \u2014 is made up of two interlocking logs, with a notch deliberately crafted into the upper piece to allow them to fit together at right angles, according to a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}