Half-million-year-old wooden structure unearthed in Zambia

[Warpy]

17. They call it the Stone Age because that's about all that survived this long

absent a cache of spears in Germany and some odd shaped pieces of wood here and there. Evidence for things like boat building is indirect, meaning there are obvious Neanderthal coastal dumps of shells that had to have come far enough offshore for fishermen to have a boat to put them in to bring them home for dinner, that sort of thing. Many of the stone tools only make a lot of sense as woodworking tools. You know, that sort of indirect evidence. We might as well call it the wood age or, now that we've found it, the fine cord age.

They weren't us but they were people. Had bigger brains, too.