> And the timber is much older than the earliest modern human - or Homo sapiens - fossils, which are about 315,000 years old. this is what astonished me. I som

> And the timber is much older than the earliest modern human - or Homo sapiens - fossils, which are about 315,000 years old. this is what astonished me. I somehow depicted our ancestors or relatives to be purely hunter/gatherers without the means (and will) to build complex wooden structures.