Someone made very sophisticated wooden tools in China 300,000 years ago, and it might have been Denisovans or even Homo ...

Tools used for digging up underground plant foods, supporting the idea of a plant-based diet among early humans.

The tools include digging sticks made of pine and hardwood, hooks for cutting roots, and small, pointed implements for extracting edible plants from the ground.

Charlie Wood wrote for the Monitor's Rapid Response team from January through April 2017 and wrote for the Science desk for the summer of 2017.