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Oldest wooden hunting tool found


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Germany

300,000 years old.

Probably Homo Heidelbergensis or maybe early Neanderthal

It looks like a short stabbing spear.

 

https://www.archaeology.org/news/11604-230720-germany-paleolithic-tool

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I've long said that wooden tools were no doubt being used, with little remaining evidence for the most part. It would be interesting to follow the development and refinement of such tools in that wood would have been so much easier to work with, and therefore used in a wider field of applications.

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