Tools used for digging up underground plant foods, supporting the idea of a plant-based diet among early humans.

The 300,000 year-old tools show that hominins in East Asia made planned foraging trips to lakeshores and designed instruments ...

Ancient wooden tools found at a site in Gantangqing in southwestern China are approximately 300,000 years old, new dating has ...

Pleistocene tools uncovered from the Gantangqing site in China are the oldest complex wooden technology ever discovered in ...

Collection of sophisticated, 300,000-year-old tools found preserved in oxygen-deprived clay by global researchers An ...

A trove of rare 300,000-year-old wooden tools unearthed in south-west China reveals that early humans in the region may have relied heavily on underground plants like roots and tubers for sustenance..

Archaeological site in Yunnan province yields nearly 1,000 wooden artefacts, including 35 tools, mostly used for digging, ...

The tools were preserved thanks to oxygen-poor clay sediments. ... Both produced estimates indicating that the wooden tools were between 250,000 and 361,000 years old.

Ancient wooden tools found at a site in Gantangqing in southwestern China are approximately 300,000 years old, new dating has shown. Discovered during excavations carried out in 2014–15 and 2018 ...