THE OLDEST WOODEN HUMAN TOOLS IN THE WORLD WERE FOUND IN MEGALOPOLIS

Who would have thought that an extremely important discovery would be made in this sleepy town of apprx. 9,000 people. Well... everybody should, because Megalopolis is no stranger to important archaeological findings.

It is the place of the mythical Giganomachy when the Olympian Gods defeated the Giants, Myth closely related to findings of ancient large animals connected to reality by the the discovery of buchering of elephands.

Evidence has been found from these deposits for the inhabiting of the area by the extinct human species Homo heidelbergensis around 500-400,000.

According to Wiki: The oldest handheld wooden tools ever found are approximately 430,000-year-old artifacts discovered at the Marathousa 1 site in Greece, pushing back the known history of wooden tool use by 40,000 years. These items, including an 81-cm-long carved alder stick, were used by early humans for tasks like digging.

But it's not just that. A very recent discovery has changed what we knew about the use of tools by early humans. The discovery happened when a team of paleoarchaeologists excavated at Marathousa 1 site of Megalopolis.

Team leader Dr Katerina Harvati said:

The two wooden tools found show signs of cutting and were found among skeletal rtemains of elephands. They are dated at around 430,000 YA.

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TOOL 1

TOOL 2

All this ties well with Dr Harvati's prervious studies in Apidima, Peloponnese on the dating of Human occupationnof Eurasia, according to which:

Very recent (July 2019) findings in Greece have proven that Homo sapiens has occupied the area about 210,000 ago, that is some 150,000 years earlier than previously thought. (Nature magazine: “Apidima Cave fossils provide earliest evidence of Homo sapiens in Eurasia”

This previous study is documented in the book: A TIMELESS PRESENCE - EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE AND WRITING IN THE HELLENIC PENINSULA.