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Archaeologists discover half a million-year-old wooden structure -- and it's not built by Homo sapiens (www.zmescience.com)

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The researchers don’t know which ancient human species made the structure and the tools, but it’s unlikely to have been Homo sapiens. The earliest fossils of Homo sapiens found so far date from around 300,000 years ago and were found in Israel, Dull told CNN. He believes the people who made the structure were cognitively sophisticated and it would be very exciting to figure out who constructed this.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (18 children)

I’d be much more concerned if a half million year old structure was built by homo sapiens

[–] Efwis 7 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Curious, why do you say that?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Like others and the article said, it predates when we believe homo sapiens first evolved by a few hundred thousand years.

So if it was built by H. Sapiens either A. We really missed the mark on when we first evolved and we need to go back and really examine our findings, or B. Time travel shenanigans.

Hint: it's pretty much definitely not B.

[–] Efwis 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The photo I was talking about. Someone tried to claim it was fake, but dating proved it wasn’t.

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