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430,000-year-old tool found in Greece

Rob Beschizza
Jan 28, 2026
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Tools. Katerina Harvati with the University of Tübingen (handout)

Archeologists found a 430,000-year-old tool, and it isn’t Rupert Murdoch. The artifact, one of two found at a lake shore in Greece, are the oldest wooden implements ever identified. Described as a “spindly stick” about 2 and half feet long, it could have been used to dig. The other is “mor…

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