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Wood Beneath German Lake May Rewrite Europe’s Prehistory

Archaeologists studying timbers recovered from beneath a German lake say the wood may belong to structures built about 10,500 years ago, potentially pushing organized wooden construction in the region back by roughly 3,000 years before the arrival of the first farms. If confirmed, the find would challenge long-held assumptions about when Stone Age hunter-gatherers in northern Europe began shaping their environment with built structures.