The wooden artifacts from Schöningen’s Spear Horizon and their place in human evolution

https://phys.org/news/2024-04-early-humans-wood-years-animals.html

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2320484121

Early humans used wood splitting 300,000 years ago to hunt animals, study shows

Early humans used sophisticated crafting techniques such as "wood splitting" to hunt and to clean animal hides, a new study has revealed.