{"id":189092,"date":"2024-05-10T15:26:39","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T20:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/476000-year-old-ancient-woodworking-discovery-rewrites-history-earth"},"modified":"2024-05-10T15:26:39","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T20:26:39","slug":"476000-year-old-ancient-woodworking-discovery-rewrites-history-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/476000-year-old-ancient-woodworking-discovery-rewrites-history-earth","title":{"rendered":"476,000-year-old ancient woodworking discovery rewrites history \u2022 Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/476000-year-old-ancient-woodworking-discovery-rewrites-history-earth.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The archaeological landscape is rarely static. Discoveries continuously shift our understanding of the past, forcing us to redraw the boundaries of what we thought was possible or likely. A recent find on ancient <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earth.com\/news\/early-humans-ancestors-woodworking-sophisticated-techniques\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">woodworkings<\/a> at Kalambo Falls, Zambia, is a prime example \u2013 it introduces us to early hominin builders with unexpected skills, operating long before the rise of <em>Homo sapiens<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The unique conditions at <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kalambo_Falls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kalambo Falls<\/a> were instrumental in the extraordinary preservation of ancient woodworking artifacts.<\/p>\n<p>The site\u2019s lush vegetation, sustained by a reliable water source, provided the necessities of life, making it a consistently appealing location for various hominin species across vast stretches of time. This long-term occupation increased the likelihood of artifacts being left behind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The archaeological landscape is rarely static. Discoveries continuously shift our understanding of the past, forcing us to redraw the boundaries of what we thought was possible or likely. A recent find on ancient woodworkings at Kalambo Falls, Zambia, is a prime example \u2013 it introduces us to early hominin builders with unexpected skills, operating long [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189092","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}