{"id":132266,"date":"2025-07-04T10:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T10:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=132266"},"modified":"2025-07-04T10:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T10:30:08","slug":"tools-unearthed-in-china-are-first-evidence-of-east-asias-wood-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=132266","title":{"rendered":"Tools unearthed in China are first evidence of East Asia\u2019s \u2018Wood Age\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe earliest tools used by humans were made of stone, followed by bronze, then iron, and finally steel. But was there a \u201cWood Age\u201d?<br \/>\nThis question has been difficult to answer as wood decomposes easily, leaving behind little evidence of ancient wooden tools \u2013 especially in East Asia. However, a study published in the top journal Science on Friday suggests that wooden tools were widely used in southwest China 300,000 years ago.<br \/>\nThese wooden tools, unearthed during excavations in 2015 and 2018,&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3316993\/tools-unearthed-china-are-first-evidence-east-asias-wood-age?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe earliest tools used by humans were made of stone, followed by bronze, then iron, and finally steel. But was there a \u201cWood Age\u201d?&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132266"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}