Although the name Nicolas Mayudel probably won’t mean anything to our readers, any former student remembers his famous triptych. Three periods of prehistory that this French Jesuit identified almost 300 years ago regarding the technological development of primitive people. The last, the Iron Age, began around 1200 BC. It was preceded by the Bronze Age, which began 1500 years earlier. As for the time when stone reigned supreme in the tools of our ancestors, it far exceeds them, since we would have to go back 3 million years ago to find its foundations.
But according to the work of Thomas Terberger, a researcher at the Department of Archeology of Lower Saxony (Germany), the Stone Age could well be called the Wooden Age. In an article published last Saturday in The New York Times, a researcher suggests that wooden tools may have been around as long ago as those made from stone. Problem: Tree products have a hard time standing the test of time. They have been found in just ten places around the world, although the stone is plentiful.
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