Zambia Yields World's Oldest Wooden Structure

A wooden structure dating almost 500,000 years old has been found on the banks of the Kalambo River in Zambia (South Central Africa). Zambia's capital is Lusaka and lies east of Angola. Go further East and you reach the other side of Africa (East Coast) and Malawi.

This discovery predates the emergence of homo sapiens which appeared on Earth between 200,000 and 300,000 years ago.

Professor Larry Barham of the University of Liverpool published the finding in the journal Nature. 

The Kalambo Falls region was first excavated in 1953.