430,000-year-old well-preserved wooden tools are the oldest ever found

An ancient hand-held wooden tool, the purpose of which is not yet clear - (University of Reading, N. Thompson, K. Harvati)

The earliest known examples of wooden hand-held tools, believed to be 430,000 years old, have been discovered by researchers in Greece’s central Peloponnese.

The find, led by a research team from the University of Reading, pushes back the previous evidence of use of similar such tools by 40,000 years.