July 2025 PMID 40608932

300,000-year-old wooden tools from Gantangqing, southwest China.

Jian-Hui Liu, Qi-Jun Ruan, Jun-Yi Ge, Yong-Jiang Huang, Xiao-Ling Zhang, Jia Liu, Shu-Feng Li, Hui Shen, Yuan Wang, Thomas A Stidham, Cheng-Long Deng, Sheng-Hua Li, Fei Han, Ying-Shuai Jin, Kieran O'Gorman

Mentions

147
Peak: 34 in Jul 2025
across 6 sources since Mar 2021

Extended reach

275,236
potential audience

Total likes

1,961

Video views

27,845

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Mar 2021 – Sep 2025

Where it's discussed

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  • YouTube2 videos

AI synopsis

What people are saying

The discussions emphasize the remarkable age of the wooden tools, with phrases like '300,000-year-old' and expressions of amazement such as 'Yes, you read that right.' The tone reflects both curiosity and admiration, pointing to a consensus that these tools could significantly influence our understanding of early human behavior and technological evolution.

AgreementModerate agreement

Most discussions agree that the discovery of these ancient wooden tools is significant and supports the idea of early technological development.

InterestHigh interest

The posts demonstrate high interest, frequently highlighting the age of the tools and their importance to understanding human history.

EngagementHigh engagement

Many comments delve into the specifics of the tools and their implications, indicating deep engagement with the subject.

ImpactModerate impact

The majority seem to consider this finding as impactful, for example, referencing how it sheds light on early hominin survival and adaptation.

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Chris Stringer
@chrisbstringer.bsky.social · Bluesky

300,000-year-old wooden tools from Gantangqing, southwest China 300,000-year-old wooden tools from Gantangqing, southwest China | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Jul 4, 2025 · 54 likes · 13 shares View post →
Roberto Sáez
@robertosaezm · X

35 herramientas de madera de 300.000 años halladas en Gantangqing, suroeste de China: palos para excavar otras herramientas con punta para obtener y procesar alimentos vegetales. 300,000-year-old wooden tools from Gantangqing, southwest China https://t.co/VXg0zehzNs

Jul 15, 2025 · 32 likes · 4 shares · 12,463 followers View post →
Jens Notroff
@jens2go · X

Yes, you read that right: 300,000-year-old #wooden tools from #Gantangqing, southwest #China. https://t.co/8UUemJsHOC https://t.co/cT3C7hHOdD

Mar 9, 2021 · 31 likes · 9 shares · 18,790 followers View post →
Ausarchosaur is counting the days til PhP Ice Age
@ausar_the · X

300,000 year old wooden tools found in China. These ones are thought to have been used for digging and processing plant foods rather than hunting. https://t.co/bPAIFOYhnA https://t.co/0yY8OIDp7p

Jul 6, 2025 · 18 likes · 4 shares · 7,251 followers View post →
MU-Peter Shimon
@mu-peter.bsky.social · Bluesky

Found in China, 300,000-year-old digging sticks that reveal an old technology Ancient wooden tools show human ancestors ate their veggies 300,000-year-old wooden tools from Gantangqing, southwest China

Jul 7, 2025 · 17 likes · 4 shares View post →
Fundación Palarq
@FundacionPalarq · X

El rostro de una mujer mesolítica de hace 10.500 años | Noticias de Arqueología y Paleontología https://t.co/qrGYyMC4C5

Sep 3, 2025 · 10 likes · 1 share · 5,810 followers View post →

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NoOne
@lINoOnelI · X

RT @FundacionPalarq: El rostro de una mujer mesolítica de hace 10.500 años | Noticias de Arqueología y Paleontología https://t.co/qrGYyMC4C5

Sep 3, 2025 · 1 share · 261 followers View post →
Fundación Palarq
@FundacionPalarq · X

El rostro de una mujer mesolítica de hace 10.500 años | Noticias de Arqueología y Paleontología https://t.co/qrGYyMC4C5

Sep 3, 2025 · 10 likes · 1 share · 5,810 followers View post →
Rubén
@Rubn58594774405 · X

Muy bueno el vídeo de la @FundacionPalarq Tenéis que verlo. https://t.co/ec05rPHOs4 #arqueologia #paleontologia #cultura

Aug 23, 2025 · 1 like · 3 followers View post →
jose ramon
@joseram51215562 · X

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Aug 22, 2025 · 20 followers View post →
JJ Priego
@JJPriegoTV · X

Aug 21, 2025 · 1 like · 13,542 followers View post →
JJ Priego
@JJPriegoTV · X

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JJ Priego
@JJPriegoTV · X

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JJ Priego
@JJPriegoTV · X

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やゆよ
@YAYUYOXYZ · X

RT @OyatsuMaster: #考古学のおやつ 2/2 ▶ Jian-Hui Liu

Aug 17, 2025 · 2 shares · 214 followers View post →
賀茂史女/かものふひとのむすめ
@k_h_musume · X

RT @OyatsuMaster: #考古学のおやつ 2/2 ▶ Jian-Hui Liu

Aug 17, 2025 · 2 shares · 309 followers View post →
おやつMaster(考古学のおやつ)
@OyatsuMaster · X

#考古学のおやつ 2/2 ▶ Jian-Hui Liu

Aug 17, 2025 · 2 likes · 2 shares · 4,241 followers View post →
おやつMaster(考古学のおやつ)
@oyatsumaster.bsky.social · Bluesky

#考古学のおやつ 2/2 ▶ Jian-Hui Liu

Aug 17, 2025 View post →
Ramon Carner ll*ll
@RamonCarner · X

RT @Oficial_PVerd: Llegeixo una NOTI dels avantpassats i primers humans. Ve de la XINA i del jaciment de Gangtangquing https://t.co/u89T9…

Jul 30, 2025 · 1 share · 10,661 followers View post →
PartitVerd_Oficial_secció local Terrassa
@Oficial_PVerd · X

Llegeixo una NOTI dels avantpassats i primers humans. Ve de la XINA i del jaciment de Gangtangquing https://t.co/u89T9WK07s

Jul 30, 2025 · 1 like · 1 share · 42 followers View post →
Md. Zakir Khan
@Zakirkhan2020 · X

RT @robertosaezm: 35 herramientas de madera de 300.000 años halladas en Gantangqing, suroeste de China: palos para excavar otras herramient…

Jul 16, 2025 · 4 shares · 119 followers View post →
@ArqueoUBU
@arqueoubu · X

RT @robertosaezm: 35 herramientas de madera de 300.000 años halladas en Gantangqing, suroeste de China: palos para excavar otras herramient…

Jul 15, 2025 · 4 shares · 3,114 followers View post →
BOUDICCA
@BOUDICC88003310 · X

RT @robertosaezm: 35 herramientas de madera de 300.000 años halladas en Gantangqing, suroeste de China: palos para excavar otras herramient…

Jul 15, 2025 · 4 shares · 985 followers View post →
Paulo Duñó Iglesias
@duno_paulo · X

RT @robertosaezm: 35 herramientas de madera de 300.000 años halladas en Gantangqing, suroeste de China: palos para excavar otras herramient…

Jul 15, 2025 · 4 shares · 244 followers View post →
埠頭-neko
@futouneko · X

旧石器時代初期の木製の道具は非常にまれ。これまで発見されたのはヨーロッパ、アフリカ各1つのみ。今回中国で約361,000年~約250,000万年前の木製の道具を発見。狩猟用でなく植物性食料の加工用の可能性。 https://t.co/47LyDNvYHQ

Jul 15, 2025 · 670 followers View post →
Roberto Sáez
@robertosaezm · X

35 herramientas de madera de 300.000 años halladas en Gantangqing, suroeste de China: palos para excavar otras herramientas con punta para obtener y procesar alimentos vegetales. 300,000-year-old wooden tools from Gantangqing, southwest China https://t.co/VXg0zehzNs

Jul 15, 2025 · 32 likes · 4 shares · 12,463 followers View post →
Roberto Sáez
@robertosaezm.bsky.social · Bluesky

35 herramientas de madera de 300.000 años halladas en Gantangqing, suroeste de China: palos para excavar otras herramientas con punta para obtener y procesar alimentos vegetales. 300,000-year-old wooden tools from Gantangqing, southwest China www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Jul 15, 2025 · 6 likes · 4 shares View post →
aratama factory
@aratama0315 · X

RT @aratama0315: science 雲南省文物考古研究所  中国南西部で30万年前の木製道具35点を発見し、東アジア初期人類が植物採集に高度な技術を使っていたことを証明 https://t.co/VhfyTv4vZi

Jul 14, 2025 · 1 share · 2,306 followers View post →
aratama factory
@aratama0315 · X

science 雲南省文物考古研究所  中国南西部で30万年前の木製道具35点を発見し、東アジア初期人類が植物採集に高度な技術を使っていたことを証明 https://t.co/VhfyTv4vZi https://t.co/XMeTW1nip5

Jul 14, 2025 · 1 like · 1 share · 2,306 followers View post →
CRCpaleos
@CRCpaleos · X

ARTÍCULO REFERENCIA (resumen) 300,000-year-old wooden tools from Gantangqing, southwest China https://t.co/yUAI6cWuIO vía @ScienceMagazine

Jul 9, 2025 · 2 likes · 3,137 followers View post →
澤井聖一
@ssawai2 · X

30万年前の掘り棒から、古代の野菜の食生活が明らかになる https://t.co/E6iTvD4bi8

Jul 9, 2025 · 312 followers View post →
Bruja
@lyssasphere · X

RT @unwizemonkey: @lyssasphere @QuestionAbyss @OhHowByronic Interesting! https://t.co/Ix7cgc0i1o

Jul 9, 2025 · 1 share · 47,225 followers View post →
Christopher Friesen
@scholarhacker · X

@Diakodamus @AncientEpoch You can read the original article in Science here: https://t.co/itXoWRKBpB Journal article: Jian-Hui Liu et al. ,300,000-year-old wooden tools from Gantangqing, southwest China.Science389,78-83(2025).DOI:10.1126/science.adr8540

Jul 8, 2025 · 4 likes · 162 followers View post →
Paul. Yma o Hyd
@unwizemonkey · X

@lyssasphere @QuestionAbyss @OhHowByronic Interesting! https://t.co/Ix7cgc0i1o

Jul 7, 2025 · 6 likes · 1 share · 1,956 followers View post →
TheManAganistTime
@Timecop1945 · X

RT @shi_huang5: Evidence of Early and Middle Pleistocene wooden implements is exceptionally rare, and existing evidence has been found only…

Jul 7, 2025 · 1 share · 54 followers View post →
MU-Peter Shimon
@mu-peter.bsky.social · Bluesky

Found in China, 300,000-year-old digging sticks that reveal an old technology Ancient wooden tools show human ancestors ate their veggies 300,000-year-old wooden tools from Gantangqing, southwest China

Jul 7, 2025 · 17 likes · 4 shares View post →
Thomas Embleton 421a
@Thomas977673521 · X

RT @ausar_the: 300,000 year old wooden tools found in China. These ones are thought to have been used for digging and processing plant food…

Jul 6, 2025 · 4 shares · 1,129 followers View post →
Ivy
@Ivytherium · X

RT @ausar_the: 300,000 year old wooden tools found in China. These ones are thought to have been used for digging and processing plant food…

Jul 6, 2025 · 4 shares · 87 followers View post →
Rickdalgetty
@Rickdalgetty1 · X

RT @ausar_the: 300,000 year old wooden tools found in China. These ones are thought to have been used for digging and processing plant food…

Jul 6, 2025 · 4 shares · 2,035 followers View post →
Ausarchosaur is counting the days til PhP Ice Age
@ausar_the · X

300,000 year old wooden tools found in China. These ones are thought to have been used for digging and processing plant foods rather than hunting. https://t.co/bPAIFOYhnA https://t.co/0yY8OIDp7p

Jul 6, 2025 · 18 likes · 4 shares · 7,251 followers View post →
Forrest Higgs
@forrest_higgs · X

Mystery solved: Why H. Erectus had more fewer and more primitive tools in Asia than his cousins further west... https://t.co/jE7dJS3V8u

Jul 6, 2025 · 423 followers View post →
Bilbao Claydis
@SITReSU · X

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Jul 5, 2025 · 3 shares · 398 followers View post →
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@CayoCornelio · X

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@Hpixiie · X

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@metodologica_cl · X

Jul 4, 2025 · 7 likes · 3 shares · 3,803 followers View post →
Theory of the Dog
@TheoryoftheDog · X

300,000-year-old wooden tools from Gantangqing, southwest China | Science https://t.co/3cvTpJKXLQ

Jul 4, 2025 · 621 followers View post →
Eileen Shepherd
@eileenshepherd.bsky.social · Bluesky

300,000-year-old wooden tools from Gantangqing, southwest China | Science #Denisovans www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Jul 4, 2025 · 1 like View post →
Garry Peterson
@resiliencesci.bsky.social · Bluesky

300,000-year-old wooden tools from Gantangqing, southwest China Liu+ doi.org/10.1126/science.adr8540 "wooden implements include digging sticks and small, complete, hand-held pointed tools" suggesting such tools "might have played an important role in hominin survival and adaptation"

Jul 4, 2025 View post →
Chris Stringer
@chrisbstringer.bsky.social · Bluesky

300,000-year-old wooden tools from Gantangqing, southwest China 300,000-year-old wooden tools from Gantangqing, southwest China | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Jul 4, 2025 · 54 likes · 13 shares View post →
Odyssey to the Far East
@motherlander · X

https://t.co/2ddEmHSTHO

Jul 3, 2025 · 3 likes · 22,672 followers View post →
Shi Huang 黄石
@shi_huang5 · X

Evidence of Early and Middle Pleistocene wooden implements is exceptionally rare, and existing evidence has been found only in Africa and western Eurasia. We re… Source: Science https://t.co/rOuJe8sVAF

Jul 3, 2025 · 2 likes · 1 share · 7,973 followers View post →
Adam Shand
@adamshand · X

RT @tolsen: 300,000-year-old wooden tools from Gantangqing, southwest China https://t.co/h3pqSNHcQ1 https://t.co/KaStAnoHf7

Mar 10, 2021 · 3 shares · 397 followers View post →
Dr Jamie Davies
@JDaviesHeritage · X

RT @jens2go: Yes, you read that right: 300,000-year-old #wooden tools from #Gantangqing, southwest #China. https://t.co/8UUemJsHOC

Mar 10, 2021 · 9 shares · 5,532 followers View post →
Ángela Caída
@asperaprocella · X

RT @tolsen: 300,000-year-old wooden tools from Gantangqing, southwest China https://t.co/h3pqSNHcQ1 https://t.co/KaStAnoHf7

Mar 10, 2021 · 3 shares · 1,360 followers View post →
Myles
@Myles_Lobdell · X

RT @tolsen: 300,000-year-old wooden tools from Gantangqing, southwest China https://t.co/h3pqSNHcQ1 https://t.co/KaStAnoHf7

Mar 10, 2021 · 3 shares · 365 followers View post →
Thomas Olsen
@tolsen · X

300,000-year-old wooden tools from Gantangqing, southwest China https://t.co/h3pqSNHcQ1 https://t.co/KaStAnoHf7

Mar 10, 2021 · 3 likes · 3 shares · 1,022 followers View post →
Paris Ayiomamitis
@Ayiosantonios · X

Read this #preprint on @researchsquare: 300,000-year-old wooden tools from Gantangqing, southwest China https://t.co/AxcAoPld8R

Mar 10, 2021 · 146 followers View post →
atsushi_noguchi
@fujimicho · X

Read this #preprint on @researchsquare: 300,000-year-old wooden tools from Gantangqing, southwest China https://t.co/hnj9CZrdKc

Mar 9, 2021 · 6,720 followers View post →
Rhapsody Angel
@Blodeuweddmoon · X

RT @jens2go: Yes, you read that right: 300,000-year-old #wooden tools from #Gantangqing, southwest #China. https://t.co/8UUemJsHOC

Mar 9, 2021 · 9 shares · 3,460 followers View post →
Katuwestākos Göranssen
@SeadogDriftwood · X

RT @jens2go: Yes, you read that right: 300,000-year-old #wooden tools from #Gantangqing, southwest #China. https://t.co/8UUemJsHOC

Mar 9, 2021 · 9 shares · 784 followers View post →
shovelbum
@MayaResearchPro · X

RT @jens2go: Yes, you read that right: 300,000-year-old #wooden tools from #Gantangqing, southwest #China. https://t.co/8UUemJsHOC

Mar 9, 2021 · 9 shares · 2,240 followers View post →
BOUDICCA
@BOUDICC88003310 · X

RT @jens2go: Yes, you read that right: 300,000-year-old #wooden tools from #Gantangqing, southwest #China. https://t.co/cT3C7hHOdD https:/…

Mar 9, 2021 · 9 shares · 985 followers View post →
Jack
@arcitejack · X

RT @jens2go: Yes, you read that right: 300,000-year-old #wooden tools from #Gantangqing, southwest #China. https://t.co/8UUemJsHOC

Mar 9, 2021 · 9 shares · 801 followers View post →
Melody Jane
@Melodia_J · X

RT @jens2go: Yes, you read that right: 300,000-year-old #wooden tools from #Gantangqing, southwest #China. https://t.co/cT3C7hHOdD https:/…

Mar 9, 2021 · 9 shares · 214 followers View post →
Jens Notroff
@jens2go · X

Yes, you read that right: 300,000-year-old #wooden tools from #Gantangqing, southwest #China. https://t.co/8UUemJsHOC https://t.co/cT3C7hHOdD

Mar 9, 2021 · 31 likes · 9 shares · 18,790 followers View post →
おやつMaster(考古学のおやつ)
@OyatsuMaster · X

#考古学のおやつ 3/3 →cf. Xing Gao et al. "300,000-year-old wooden tools from Gantangqing, southwest China" [Research Square (@researchsquare)] https://t.co/V5lUulxwu2

Mar 9, 2021 · 1 like · 4,241 followers View post →