Trilobites killed by volcanic ash(bristol.ac.uk)

131 points by geox 2 years ago | 21 comments

430k-year-old well-preserved wooden tools are the oldest ever found(nytimes.com)

480 points by bookofjoe 9 months ago | 249 comments

News article reporting that 430,000-year-old wooden handheld tools found at Marathousa 1 in Greece's Megalopolis Basin are the oldest known.

Archaeologists discover oldest wooden structure(news.liverpool.ac.uk)

170 points by gnufx 3 years ago | 85 comments

Puzzling prehistoric artifacts served a practical purpose: ropemaking(science.org)

36 points by diodorus 2 years ago | 13 comments

Researchers find 3,500-year-old loom that reveals textile revolution(web.ua.es)

116 points by geox 7 months ago | 14 comments

30cm worm fossil more than half a billion years old discovered in Greenland(bristol.ac.uk)

125 points by clouddrover 2 years ago | 108 comments