Thousands of handcrafted antique tools that a retired woodworking teacher spent decades collecting but never used are worth more than $35,000. Roy Turnage, 88, spent years adding to his haul that ...

A construction project to upgrade a sewer conveyance system in Canada led to the discovery of an archaeological site containing ancient wooden tools. Archaeologists uncovered 3,800-year-old wooden ...

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 2018–19, ...

For decades, our image of early humans has been shaped by what they left behind. Usually, this meant sharp stone blades, crude axes, and piles of animal bones. This led to a view of our ancestors as ...

Neanderthals were even better craftsmen than thought, a new analysis of 300,000-year-old wooden tools has revealed. By Franz Lidz In 1836, Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, a Danish antiquarian, brought ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Diane Dodd doesn’t care about the monetary value of her grandfather’s antique wooden tools. To her family, they’re priceless because Zygmont Rawdanowicz used them to make a ...

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 2018–19, ...

The Rock County Historical Society will host a presentation on Antique Wooden Tools on March 22 from 7 to 8 p.m. at the Helen Jeffris Wood Museum Center. Ron Jensen will display a variety of antique ...

GANTANGQING, CHINA—Humans have been making and using wooden tools for over one million years, but since they decompose quickly, they rarely survive in the archaeological record. However, according to ...

Archaeologists have announced the discovery of a remarkable wooden artifact that has been preserved for about 3,500 years since the Bronze Age. The prehistoric object, a kind of wooden spade, was ...

Professor, Environmental Futures Research Centre, School of Science, University of Wollongong The excavation, curation, and research of the Gantangqing site were supported by National Cultural ...