This 7,000-year-old well is the oldest wooden structure ever discovered, archeologists say

have discovered a 7,000-year-old Neolithic well in eastern Europe, which they believe is the oldest wooden structure in the world.

"The well was only preserved because it had been underwater for centuries. Now we cannot let it dry out, or the well would be destroyed," Karol Bayer of the University of Pardubice's Department of Restoration said inResearchers are developing a process to dry the wood and preserve it without deformation using sugar to reinforce the wood's cellular structure.

Measuring 140 cm in height and with an 80 by 80 cm square base, the well was found last year during construction of the D35 motorway near Ostrov, Czech Republic. Researchers published their findings in theIts design shines a light on technical skills that researchers didn't think Neolithic people possessed.

According to experts, the well indicates that whoever built it was able to process the surface of felled trunks with utmost precision, given that they only had tools made of stone, bone, horn, or wood.

Send it over. I need some firewood.

We have this false belief that technology proves our intelligence. Our ancestors had just the same intelligence to work with what they had available. Sometimes I think they had more smarts in different areas.

Looks like the prototype of the iPhone

Even older than Tutankhamun's petrified boner that they found?

It's ironic how something that was once carved to determine its age, is now verified as the 'oldest wooden structure ever discovered'.

so, what's the time span of error given to the wood age of cut?

wrathofgnon big if true

joe_warmington Really old Well in Caledon. Wooden skid. Beat that.

5256 BC. Not 5000 BC. Or 5200 BC. But 5256. Really. In reality, it was probably built around 1700 AD.

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