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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Two artifacts found at a lake shore in Greece are the oldest wooden tools to be uncovered so far and date back 430 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Two artifacts found at a lake shore in Greece are the oldest wooden tools to be uncovered so far and date back 430,000 years. One is a spindly stick about 2 1/2 feet (80 centimeters) ...

The finding, along with the discovery of a 500,000-year-old hammer made of bone, indicates that our human ancestors were making tools even earlier than archaeologists thought. By Franz Lidz Early ...