500 years old wooden structure

[vincent]

Here's evidence for very early human use of tools and wood to build a structure. Is this the wooden equivalent of Gobekli Tepi, something which will cause archaeologists to twist and squirm to preserve all their current models?

www.yahoo.com/news/half-million-old-wooden-structure-151034519.html

www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06557-9

[johannes]

Even badgers can build themselves ramps and platforms

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so H. erectus and H. naledi might have been able to do the same.

[Ian Thomas]

True. But badgers and beavers don't turn their engineering know-how and wood-working skills into construction of boats able to cross the seas. Homo erectus could do this ..

The First Mariners Project
www.ifrao.com/the-first-mariners-project/
One of the most significant finds in the history of archaeology is the discovery that hominins of more than 850 000 years ago managed to cross the sea to colonise a number of Indonesian islands. .. Until recently, it had been assumed that the first sea crossings occurred no more than 60 000 years ago.

Which means Sahul must have been colonised circa 1Mya by pre-human hominins: H. erectus obviously - but who knows who else? If so, does that call into question Out-Of-Africa?